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RIO's Hogan Headstand Jig

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Note: Our stored recipe does not match this pattern. Unverified pending a rewrite from a documented source.

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Heavy-wire curved scud/nymph hook (TMC 2457), 8
  • Thread Tan/brown 6/0

Materials

  • Bead-chain eyes Silver bead chain eyes medium (medium, one pair)
  • Rabbit zonker strip Sand variant rabbit zonker strip (~3/4 shank-length tail)
  • Hackle Brown hackle (~size 12)
  • Superfine dubbing March Brown (rusty brown)
  • Peacock sword (8-10 strands)
  • Brushable superglue

How to tie it

  1. Start thread on a TMC 2457 scud hook, size 8, behind the eye.
  2. Tie a cut pair of medium silver bead-chain eyes on top of the shank just behind the eye with figure-eight wraps and lock them with a drop of brushable superglue.
  3. Reposition the hook nose-down and carry the thread to the bend.
  4. Tie in a small bunch of sand-variant rabbit zonker strip as a tail, about three-quarters of a shank length, with the underfur pulled out to reduce bulk; wrap the butts down the shank.
  5. Tie in a brown hackle (undersized, about a size 12) by the tip right against the tail base.
  6. Dub a slim rusty March Brown superfine body forward toward the bead-chain eyes.
  7. Reset the hook upright and palmer the brown hackle forward through the body in open turns to the eyes; tie off (counter-rib with mono or wire if you want extra durability).
  8. Tie in a short bunch of peacock sword (8-10 strands) over the top just behind the eyes as a wing/hook guard so it rides over the point.
  9. Whip finish at the eye and cement.

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