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FlySpoke's Super Bug (Carnage variation)

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Foam version of an Atlantic salmon pattern. Tied here as a salmonfly; don't have a scud hook big enough to handle a bug this size so I subbed with the TFS iron (shorter shank than the Dai Riki 280) and it seemed to balance okay.

 

hook - TFS 2305 #4

thread - UTC 140 burnt orange

core - 25lb Mason

rib - x-small wire gold

Underbody - moose body hair

body/head - 2mm foam rust

body hackle - brown (undersize by 3)

wing - elk hair

thorax - shmootz from the base of an orange/grizzly hackle

hackle - grizzly dyed orange (1TBS Rit orange, 1 cup water)

front wing - elk hair

 

 

put a loop in the mono

 

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mash barb, start thread; tie in mono and rib

 

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clean, stack some moose body hair; tie in, hook loop onto gallows

 

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wrap moose hair up (a bit past the bend) and back; trim tips (optional)

 

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tie in foam strip (1/2 gap width) at eye; fold, tie down at eye to create head, trim

 

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tie in second foam strip (1/3 hook gap), brush underbody with Super Glue, wrap up and back, adjusting tension/overlap to create tapered body; tie off/trim

 

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tie in hackle at base of body, palmer to tip

 

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rib thru hackle, helicopter end, cover with thread; trip hackle tip

 

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clean, stack, measure (tips to rear of body) a healthy clump of elk, trim butts, tie in

 

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push down with thumb to divide hairs on either side of body, separate with cross wraps

 

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clean, stack, measure (about 1/2 rear wing length) another, sparser clump of elk; trim butts, tie in facing forward over head

 

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tie in hackle

 

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create thread loop

 

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harvest shmootz (you could use dubbing, but this stiff is real buggy, the hackle easily wraps thru it and I hate to waste anything)

 

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insert in waxed loop, spin, trim

 

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wrap thorax; tie off/trim

 

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wrap hackle, tie off/trim, half hitch x 2, SHHAN

 

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trim hackle, go fish

 

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Regards,

Scott

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