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RIO's Hogan Chubby Cousin

Nymph · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook standard/2XL nymph hook (e.g. TMC 5262), 12-16
  • Thread red 6/0

Materials

  • Tungsten or brass bead Gold bead (1, sized to hook)
  • Ultra wire (rib) Gold wire (small, 1 strand)
  • Ice Dub (body) Peacock ice dub (small pinch)
  • Rubber/silicone legs Tan (UV) cone head (2 sets)
  • Mallard flank or partridge (collar) Natural partridge (1 feather)
  • UV cure resin Clear uv resin (as needed for head)

How to tie it

  1. Debarb, slide the gold bead to the eye, and start the red thread behind it, leaving a short band of bare red thread showing right behind the bead as a hot collar.
  2. Bind in the gold wire at the bend and run the thread back up to just behind the bead.
  3. Dub a shaggy peacock Ice Dub body forward, stopping at the 75% mark; keep it buggy and picked-out, not tight.
  4. Counter-wrap the gold wire forward through the body in 4-5 open turns and tie off behind the bead.
  5. Tie a set of tan rubber legs on each side at the 75% mark so they splay out, trimming so the rear pairs reach the bend and the front pairs reach past the eye.
  6. Tie in a mallard flank or partridge feather by the tip and take 2-3 turns as a soft-hackle collar, then sweep the fibers back and lock them down against the red thread.
  7. Build a small red thread head, whip finish, then coat the head and thread collar with a thin layer of UV resin and cure.

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