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Rubber Grub Nymph Olive

Nymph · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

• Hook curved grub/scud hook, #10-14
• Thread olive 8/0

Materials

• Round rubber legs (tail) Olive/black rubber legs (1 pair)
• Dubbing (body) Olive ice dub (pinch)
• Fine wire (rib) Gold wire (short length)
• Round rubber legs (legs) Olive/black rubber legs (2 pairs)

How to tie it

1. Start thread behind the eye and lay a base back to the bend of the curved hook.
2. Tie in a short split rubber-leg tail, half a shank long, and bind in the gold wire.
3. Dub a fat, tapered olive body forward to the 75% mark following the hook's curve.
4. Rib the body with 5-6 open turns of gold wire and tie off.
5. Figure-8 one or two pairs of olive rubber legs at the thorax so they splay to the sides.
6. Dub a short olive collar over the leg roots, whip finish, and cement.

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