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Tying Instruction : 1) Tie on thread at hook bend. 2) Tie on silver oval (French) tinsel down into hook bend. 3) Tie on chartreuse floss and advance tread. Wrap the rear 1/3 of hook with floss as butt section. 4) Tie on a mallard feather by the tip at the front of the butt section. 5) Chop up chartreuse glow bug yarn and dub a sparse and shaggy body. 6) Take the silver oval tinsel and make 3-4 butting turns to form the tag of the fly. Then make open turn through the butt and the body section (4-5 turns max). Tie off tinsel near hook eye. 7) Take the mallard feather and palmer it through the body tucking it in behind the rib. Tie off mallard near hook eye. 8) Tie on a wing of sparse orange bucktail. 9) Tie on purple hen hackle by it tip and make 2-3 turns in front of wing. 10) Whip finish a neat head and coat with hard as nails. |
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