Hatches Magazine Fly Patterns

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yellow elastic for legs
moving eyes

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Olive rabbit strip, purple rabbit strip, orange rabbit strip,
20 guage steel wire, and rainbow mylar tubing. 1/4” eyes if you wish

Wrap the hook with 20 gauge steel wire, from the hook eye, back past the barb.

Slide on the mylar tubing, and tie off at the back.
Moving up, to about the middle of the hook shank, tie in a small piece of purple rabbit strip to the underside of the hook. next, tie in a piece of orange rabbit strip in front of that.
Flip the fly over, and tie in a large strip of olive rabbit strip near the eye of the hook. Whip finish, and apply head cement, or superglue.

Apply 1/4” eyes on either side if you like, I think it makes it look better.

Hook: Bass Bug Hook

Weed Guard: Heavy Mono

Tail: Sparse Marabou. Flash

Butt: Spun Deer Body Hair

Legs: Rabbit Strips

Body: Stacked Deer Body Hair

Head: Spun Deer Body Hair

Eyes: Doll Eyes

-Tie in weed guard
-Tie in Flash
-Spin a couple clumps of deer body hair to form the butt. This will keep the legs from merging on the retrieve.
-Tie in a rabbit strip on each side of shank
-Stack deer body hair, yellow on bottom, olive on top
-Stop when you get to where the head will be
-Spin olive till you get to the eye
-Tie off
-Trim to shape
-reattach thread and tie off weed guard
-cut out eye sockets, glue on eyes with zap a gap

#4 Hook
Brown Thread
Brown Ice Chenille
Brown Sparkle Rubber Legs
Brown Microsuede

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