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Sulphur Perdigon
How do you tie a Sulphur Perdigon?
Sulphur Perdigon is a nymph fly pattern for trout. Find its 8 materials and 16 tying steps below.
- Difficulty
- 3 of 5
- Target species
- trout
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At the vise
Materials
- Jig Hook, Hanak 450BL, sizes 14-18
- Tungsten Slotted Bead, 2.8mm, Gold
- Lead Wire, .010"
- Thread (70 Denier), Sulphur Yellow
- Wood Duck Flank
- UTC Ultra Wire, Small, Gold
- Z-Lon, Sulphur Yellow
- UV Resin
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Tying instructions
Place the hook in the vise and slide the tungsten bead onto the hook, small hole first.
Wrap lead-free wire around the hook shank behind the bead, making 5-6 touching wraps, and break it off close to the hook shank.
Apply a small drop of super glue to the hook shank behind the bead, push the wire wraps forward, and hold to secure.
Start the yellow tying thread on the hook shank behind the wire wraps, wrap rearward, and snip off the tag end.
Wrap thread forward over the wire wraps and back to lock them down, ending at the hook point.
Separate 8-10 fibers from a wood duck flank feather, align the tips, and measure to form a tail of hook shank length.
Anchor the wood duck fibers to the top of the hook shank back to the bend, positioning the thread behind the wire wraps.
Tie in the small gold wire against the wire wraps and secure it to the base of the tail, then wrap forward.
Cut a 6-inch length of golden brown antron yarn, separate into two equal lengths, and set one aside.
Lay the antron yarn on top of the hook shank, secure it back to the base of the tail, and make open spiral wraps up the hook shank.
Anchor the antron at the bead with tying thread and snip the excess yarn off close.
Make open spiral wraps with the gold wire up the body to rib and segment the fly, securing it at the bead.
Build up a short yellow hotspot collar behind the bead with additional wraps of tying thread.
Whip finish, seat the knot well, and snip the tying thread free.
Apply black UV cure resin to create a small black wingcase, starting on the front edge of the body and over the hotspot, curing with UV light.
Apply a thin coat of low viscosity UV cure resin to the entire body of the fly, including the wingcase, and cure with UV light.