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RIO's Hogan Hot Nest

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Note: Our stored recipe appears to describe a different pattern (Hogan Brown's Runoff Stone). Unverified pending a rewrite from a documented source.

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Straight-shank jig hook (with large tungsten bead), 6
  • Thread White (butt) then brown 8/0

Materials

  • Tungsten slotted bead (large)
  • Non-toxic lead wire .2 non toxic lead wire (underbody weight)
  • UV resin Hot orange uv resin (butt hot spot)
  • Vinyl/rubber legs (tail)
  • Pearl quill (rib)
  • Antron/buggy-nymph dubbing Golden stone (body)
  • CDC feather Natural dun cdc feather (1 (soft-hackle collar))
  • Mallard flank Wood-duck gold (collar)

How to tie it

  1. Slide the biggest tungsten bead you can onto a #6 jig hook and add.2 non-toxic lead wire to weight the shank. Lay a white-thread base over the rear of the shank.
  2. Coat the rear (butt) with hot-orange UV resin in sections, curing each turn, to build a hot spot over the white thread.
  3. Switch to brown thread. Tie in vinyl/rubber legs on top at the rear, using the hot spot to split them into a divided tail.
  4. Tie in a strand of pearl quill for the rib.
  5. Dub a tapered body of golden-stone Antron/buggy-nymph dubbing (like an oversized bird's nest), leaving room at the head.
  6. Wrap the pearl quill forward as a segmented, iridescent rib; tie off and trim.
  7. Tie in a large natural dun CDC feather by the tip and palmer it as a soft-hackle collar, pinning the fibers back with thread wraps; trim the stem.
  8. Tie in a clump of wood-duck-gold mallard flank as an over-collar, then whip finish behind the bead and cement.

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