Filo-Thorax Nymph

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Materials

Hook: Nymph, 3x long (best with natural nymph bend)
Thread: red (important)
Tail: a few grouse fibers
Body: tan squirrel
Thorax: grey filo-plume
Collar: grouse

Tying Instructions

1.

Attach the thread to the hook and wind back to the bend. Tie in a few fibers from a brown grouse body feather. The tail should be just slightly shorter than the body.

2.

Begin dubbing the body. There should be a little bit of exposed red thread at the end, gradually merging a fully dubbed body. (i.e. add only a little dubbing to start out, then gradually add more...) The body should go 3/4 the way up the hook.

3.

Tie in the grey filo-plume (O.K. so it really isn't a filo plume as such -- the easiest thing is one of the aftershafts you'll more than likely find with your grouse feathers...) and wrap it a few times around the hook to make a thorax.

4.

Tie in a grouse body feather (like a partridge feather -- tip first). Wrap a few turns stroking the fibers back toward the tail. Tie it off, finish the head and you're done!

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