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Cooper's Natural Fox Nymph
Tied by Michael Nych |
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Thread: 6/0 brown or olive
Rib: Fine gold or copper wire
Abdomen: Florescent orange floss
Tail: Pheasant tail
Hook: Tiemco 700 #10
Thorax: Wapsi natural fox color dubbing
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| Tying Instructions |
- Attach the thread at eye and wind back to bend.
- Attach pheasant tail fibers (about 10-12) to top of hook extending over bend slightly and bind down to top of hook stopping at about the 2/3 mark.
- Return thread to tie in point of tail.
- Take a 6 inch piece of wire and fold it in half. Tie it in, with the butts facing the eye of the hook, and bind down the length of the abdomen.
- Tie in the floss at the bend and cover the abdomen with 3 passes of floss and tie off.
- Insert dubbing twister into wire loop and twist it into 1 wire strand and rib the abdomen with 5-6 turns and tie off.
- Apply squirrel dubbing to thread and dub a bushy thorax.
- Fold butts of pheasant tail over thorax and whip finish.
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