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RIO's Cotton Candy

Nymph · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Heavy-wire nymph/blob hook (Firehole 321), 10
  • Thread Fluorescent red 12/0

Materials

  • Bead Fluorescent orange slotted tungsten bead (1/8 in)
  • Cactus/Eggot chenille (body) Fluorescent cheese
  • Cactus/Eggot chenille (back) Fire orange

How to tie it

  1. Slide a 1/8-inch fluorescent-orange bead onto a size 10 Firehole 321 hook small-hole-first and lay a base of fluorescent-red thread down to the bend.
  2. Strip a little fuzz from the end of a strand of fire-orange Eggot and tie it in at the bend, leaving it hanging to pull over the back later.
  3. Strip the end of a strand of fluorescent-cheese Eggot, tie it in at the bend, and wrap the thread forward to within a wrap or two of the bead.
  4. Wrap the fluorescent-cheese Eggot forward in about six or seven turns to form the blob body, stopping a wrap or two short of the bead; tie off but don't cut it.
  5. Pull the fire-orange Eggot forward over the top of the body and tie it down just behind the bead to form the back.
  6. Take one more wrap of the fluorescent-cheese Eggot just behind the bead (in front of the orange) to form a collar and tie off.
  7. Build a small thread head behind the bead and whip finish.

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