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Rickards Callibaetis

Nymph · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook 2XL nymph, 10-14
  • Thread Olive or tan 8/0

Materials

  • Tail / shellback Wood duck or dyed mallard (1 bunch (long butts))
  • Rib Copper wire (1 length)
  • Dubbing Olive hare's ear (as needed)
  • Palmered hackle Grizzly hackle (1 feather)

How to tie it

  1. Start thread behind the eye and wrap back to the bend. Tie in a sparse tail of wood duck (or dyed mallard) fibers about half a shank long, leaving the long butts pointing back. They become the back.
  2. Tie in copper wire at the tail for the rib.
  3. Tie in a grizzly hackle by the tip at the tail.
  4. Dub a slim olive hare's-ear body forward to behind the eye.
  5. Palmer the grizzly hackle forward in open turns, then rib the copper wire forward through the hackle in 10+ close turns to segment the body and lock the hackle; tie off.
  6. Pull the long tail butts over the top as a shellback and tie down behind the eye; trim.
  7. Whip finish and cement.

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