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Bamford's Overbite Nymph SBS

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Change color/sizes to meet your needs.

 

hook - Dai Riki 280 #14

thread - MFC 8/0 brown

tail/abdomen - pheasant tail

rib - Uni-stretch yellow

thorax - Arizona Synthetic dubbing peacock

shellback/legs - pheasant tail

 

mash barb, start thread; tie in rib, wrap to bend

 

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tie in some pheasant tail fibers (tips gap width past bend); wrap to 2/3 mark

 

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rib abdomen; tie off/trim

 

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tie in some more pheasant tail fibers; let tips extend past eye

 

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dub thread/dub thorax

 

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divide pheasant tips, sweep back/tie down

 

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pull pheasant butts forward over thorax

 

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tie off/trim, half hitch x 2, SHHAN

 

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Regards,

Scott

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Pulled this off the Orvis site, where I found it - "Designed by Tucker Bamford, Fishing Manager at the Park Meadows, Colorado store"

He ties it as a baetis, in smaller sizes. Haven't fished it yet, but I thought it could work in larger sizes as an attractor.

Regards,
Scott

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