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Full Metal Jacket Perdigon

A Perdigon style fly incorporating copper braid

Nick Thomas
Nymph
Easy
  1. Fit the bead and ring neck onto the hook, run on the thread and make thread wraps to fix the bead and ring in place.
  2. Fold some fibres stripped from a piece of organza ribbon around the thread and tie back down to the bend.
  3. Tie in a piece of copper braid and wind forward in overlapping turns.
  4. Tie in the braid against the ring and cut off the waste.
  5. Wind the thread up and down over the copper braid to smooth the abdomen.
  6. Whip finish behind the ring.
  7. Apply a thin coat of UV-varnish and cure.
brown trout
grayling
Hook Fasna F-444 #12
Bead Get Slotted 3.3mm jig-off tungsten
Collar Get Slotted 2.9mm orange brass ring
Thread Fine UNI-mono
Tails Copper organza fibres
Abdomen 2mm copper braid

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