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Blood Dot Egg
How do you tie a Blood Dot Egg?
Blood Dot Egg is a nymph fly pattern for trout, steelhead, salmon. Find its 5 materials and 17 tying steps below.
- Difficulty
- 2 of 5
- Target species
- trout, steelhead, salmon
- Pattern designer
- Piscator Flies
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At the vise
Materials
- Hook: Mustad C67s or egg hook #10-18
- Thread: Fl. Fire Orange 140d 6/0 or GSP
- Body: McFly Foam Strawberry pink
- Blood spot: McFly Foam Brite Red
- Glue
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Tying instructions
Secure the hook in the vise.
Start the thread behind the hook eye and wrap back to create a base.
Cut a 1-1.25 inch section of Strawberry Pink McFly Foam.
Tie in the McFly Foam on top of the hook shank with a few loose wraps.
Pull the McFly Foam to the bottom of the hook shank.
Secure the McFly Foam with a few tight wraps.
Cut another 1-1.25 inch section of Strawberry Pink McFly Foam.
Add a strand of Brite Red McFly Foam to the middle.
Bunch the McFly Foam so that the red sits on top.
Tie in the McFly Foam on top of the hook shank with a few loose wraps.
Pull the McFly Foam to the bottom of the hook shank.
Secure the McFly Foam with a few tight wraps.
Hand whip finish.
Cut the thread.
Trim the McFly Foam on top to create a round egg shape.
Trim the McFly Foam on the bottom to create a round egg shape.
Apply glue to the thread wraps.