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Salmon Candy
Originator: Lloyd Frese
Tied by Leslie Benscoter |
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Thread: 6/0 black
Hackle: Brown palmered
Shellback: Deer Hair
Tail: Deer hair short
Body: Med Dark Olive Wool
Hook: TMC 900BL
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| Tying Instructions |
- Tie in thread - 4 turns
- Tie in prepared hackle by the butt 3 turns
- Tie in 3 inches of wool wrap to bend
- Tie in Tips of stacked deer hair - 3 turns pinch-pull up.
- Pull butts of hair forward and tie over hackle - 3 turns
- Wrap thread to eye
- Trim the butts at angle with eye of hook
- Whip finish and cement at butt thread and head area
- Use thinned cement - apply with bodkin.
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| Fishing Tips |
Grease the Salmon Candy and fish in the surface film.
If shellback is broken by fish teeth - fish the pattern as an emerger.
Reference - Page 69 Flies the best 1000, by Randle Stetzer.
TMC 5262 or Mustad 9671 hooks were suggested in the pattern book. |
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