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Little Rainbow Trout Bucktail
How do you tie a Little Rainbow Trout Bucktail ?
Little Rainbow Trout Bucktail is a streamer fly pattern for Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Brook Trout, Bass. Find its 7 materials and 14 tying steps below.
- Difficulty
- 3 of 5
- Target species
- Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Brook Trout, Bass
- Pattern designer
- Traditional
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At the vise
Materials
- Streamer Hook, TMC 9394, sizes 6-10
- Thread (70 Denier), Black
- Silver Tinsel
- Bright Green Bucktail
- Pink Dubbing (head band)
- Throat: Pink Bucktail
- White Bucktail, Pink Bucktail, Green Bucktail, Grey Squirrel Tail
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Tying instructions
Secure hook in vise with shank level
Attach thread behind eye, wrap to bend
Tie in bright green bucktail for tail at bend
Tie in silver mylar tinsel for rib
Create dubbing noodle with pinkish white dubbing
Dub body forward, leaving room for throat and wing
Counter-wrap silver tinsel rib through body
Tie in sparse pink bucktail underneath as throat
Tie in white bucktail as first wing layer
Tie in pink bucktail on top, slightly blending with white
Tie in green bucktail on top
Tie in grey squirrel tail fibers as top wing layer
Build neat thread head
Whipfinish and apply head cement