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Last Chance Cripple
How do you tie a Last Chance Cripple?
Last Chance Cripple is a emerger fly pattern for trout. Find its 8 materials and 19 tying steps below.
- Difficulty
- 4 of 5
- Target species
- trout
- Pattern designer
- René Harrop
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Materials
- Hook: Tiemco 102Y #12-19
- Thread: Benecchi 12/0, tan
- Tail: Lemon woodduck barbs
- Shuck: Ice Dub, ginger
- Abdomen: Goose biot, dyed tan
- Thorax: Squirrel, tan
- Wing: CDC, natural
- Hackle: Cock, grizzly dyed dark dun
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Tying instructions
Attach thread just back of the eye and run to mid-shank.
Trim waste thread.
Tie in a few barbs of lemon wood duck for the tail, about the length of the shank.
Trim away the waste.
Tie in ginger Ice Dub for the shuck on top of the hook shank.
Trim the Ice Dub to about half the length of the tail.
Tie in a goose biot with the notch on the right side (from the tyer's point of view).
Spiral the thread back to the thorax position.
Clip on easy pliers and start to wrap the abdomen.
Wrap the abdomen to the thorax position.
Tie down and trim away the waste.
Dub fine tan squirrel dubbing to form a small hump thorax.
Tie in two CDC feathers with the tips facing over the eye, just shy of shank length.
Lift up the CDC and trim.
Tie in a grizzly dyed dun hackle.
Wrap the hackle working away from the eye.
Trap the tip and cut through.
Lift up the CDC and make a few hard locking turns in front to lift them up slightly.
Wrap a three-turn whip finish underneath.