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Tufty Baitfish

Nick Thomas
Baitfish fly
Easy
  1. Run on the thread behind the bead and trim off the tag end.
  2. Tie olive and orange egg yarn loops and thread the ends of the mono through the bead from the back.
  3. Fold one end back and catch in followed by the other.
  4. Adjust the position of the tufts and the bead and lock in place with further thread wraps.
  5. Clip the ends of the yarn in hackle pliers in front of the bead.
  6. Tie in a length of tinsel and wrap down the hook and back, wrap over with the tying thread.
  7. Whip finish and varnish the body.
  8. Unclip the yarn, brush back over the body and trim to shape.
Hook Fasna F-444 #10
Bead Get Slotted copper 4.6mm tungsten counter hole
Thread UNI-Mono
Body UTC opal mirage tinsel
Belly Wapsi orange egg yarn
Back Wapsi olive egg yarn

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