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Matt's Scorpion

 
tied by kirkdiet
Fly Type: Inverted Hook,
Target Species: Panfish,
Recommended Region: Southeast US,
Imitation: Dragonflies,
Material List*:
MATERIALS
HOOK: Orvis Scud, Shrimp, & San Juan Worm Hook, size #10, or equivalent.
THREAD: Red thread, your choice of size, I prefer something heavy so it holds up when I make my dubbing loop. Usually 3/0 or 14 or 210 Denier.
HEAD: Red Glimmer Thread.
EYES: Non-Toxic Nymph Eye from Cascade Crest Tools or your favorite barbell style eyes including beadchain.
TAIL: Tuft of rabbit body hair cut from a zonker or other hide piece.
BODY: Dubbing loop filled with DDH dubbing, which is rabbit body fur mixed with Diamond Dub Holographic material. You can use plain rabbit or rabbit mixed with your favorite super fine flash.
LEGS: Silicon Micro Mini Legs from Cascade Crest Tools. These round silicon legs are somehow stronger than the common square silicon legs.
MISC.: Channel lead from Cascade Crest (Optional if additional weight is desired).

*Materials with links give you direct access to that product at the J. Stockard store.
Tying Instructions: Tie in beadchain/barbell eyes on top of hook shank using your favorite method preferably including CA glue. Tie them in close to, but not right up against, the hook eye leaving room for the glimmer threadto be criss-crossed a couple times. If additional weight is desired, place a piece of channel lead on top the hook shank just behind the eyes and crimp it with a needle nose pliers or foreceps followed by a few wraps of thread to hold in place while you apply a drop of CA glue. Finish wrapping over lead and take thread back halfway in to the hook bend. Tie in a tuft of rabbit body fur approximately the length of the hook shank.
Make a dubbing loop at the tail tie in point and fill with your rabbit/sparkle dubbing. Wrap forward until about two thirds of the exposed shank is covered. Select four strands of leg material three times the hook shank length. Fold the legs over the dubbing loop and and secure with on hook shank with one wrap of the dubbing loop. Grab one set of legs and pull to the near side of hook shank and work the other set to the far side of the shook shank so that you have a set of four legs on each side of the hook. Make one or two more wraps of the dubbing loop over the mid section of the legs to secure. Hold legs back and make a few wraps of dubbing in front of the legs and tie off.
Start your glimmer thread behind the eyes, make a couple figure eight wraps around the barbells and wrap a color and whip finish the Glimmer Thread.
Hold the bunch of legs together and cut to length, approx. one and a quarter the hook shank length. Coat Glimmer Thread wraps with a couple coats of nail polish.

Presentation Tips: Twitched slowly on bottom. As a dropper from a popper or under a strike indicator.