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Chicken or Pasta Fly

Martin Joergensen
Cold saltwater fly
Easy
  1. Tie the rib over the hook bend.
  2. Follow by the tan brush.
  3. Cover the shank with the tan brush, leaving a bit of space for the red one.
  4. Cut surplus and cover the stub.
  5. Tie in the red brush and wrap it a turn or two.
  6. Cut surplus and cover the stub.
  7. Leave a bit of space for the skin strip and the head.
  8. Tie in the strip just behind the hook eye and pull backwards.
  9. Tie it down with the rib in a few open turns and finish the rib just behind the hook eye.
  10. Trim rib and form a small head.
  11. Whip finish and varnish.
sea trout (sea run)
Hook Great, well proportioned, beefy Gamakatsu SC15 - Wide Gape, curved, size 4 or 2
Thread Bland, boring black 6/0
Rib Plain copper wire - unvarnished so that i becomes dull in no time
Body Pre-made, drab, boring, sand colored Siman dubbing brush on copper wire
Throat Dull, tasteless red dubbing brush - also Siman
Wing/tail Natural, not overly interesting rabbit zonker strip
Head Ordinary tying thread

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