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Rogue Foam Stone

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 2 versions

Reference Recipe

  • Hook 2X-long dry (Daiichi 1270), 6-8
  • Thread Black (fire orange for head) 6/0

Materials

  • Foam strip, 3mm Orange foam strip (1 hook-gap-wide strip)
  • Krystal Flash (underwing) Root beer flash (few strands)
  • Elk or moose body hair (overwing) Natural deer hair (1 clump)
  • Deer hair (head) Natural deer hair (1 clump)
  • Round rubber legs Black ostrich herl (2 strands)

How to tie it

  1. Lay a thread base over the rear 70% of the shank so the foam has tooth to grab.
  2. Cut a hook-gap-wide strip of orange 3mm foam; bind it at the bend, then advance and re-bind every few wraps to form 4 evenly spaced segments, stopping at the 65% mark. Trim the rear foam to a short tag.
  3. Tie in a few strands of root-beer Krystal Flash as an underwing, about body length.
  4. Stack a clump of elk or moose body hair and tie it in as the overwing, tips just past the body; snip the butts.
  5. Figure-8 a black round-rubber strand on each side at the front of the body; trim to a shank length.
  6. Stack a clump of natural deer hair, tie it in reversed with tips forward over the eye, then fold the butts back to form a bullet head, binding with fire-orange thread and leaving the tips flared as a collar.
  7. Whip finish behind the collar and cement.

Other versions

1 more in the app: Foam Rogue Stone.

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