The Fishin' Hole Tandem Little Brown Trout

Recipe:
Hooks- Mustad 3366 sz4
Tandem wire- Sevalon nylon coated wire 27# test
Thread- Rumpf prewaxed Tan 6/0
Tail - Black marabou
Wing- yellow and brown bucktail mixed, black bucktail
Body- Brown / gold embroidery thread (DMC color 780) Gold med smooth tinsel

Instructions:
Clamp the eye of one hook in your vise of in a pair of needlenose and gently bend the eye of the trailing hook up to about a 30 to 40 degree angle.
Measure out about 3 - 3.5 inches of wire and snip with wirecutters. Feed wire in through trailing hook eye until it reaches just ahead of bend.
Cover wire on top with many wraps of thread.
Whip finish.
With thin CA or superglue lightly cover wire up to and including the hook eye, let dry thoroughly.
Start thread again and bring to rear of the hook, measure and tie in a marabou tail. Tie in about 4 inches of embroidery thread and gold tinsel. Bring thread to eye. Wrap forward embroidery and bind in, then open spiral tinsel forward. Whip finish.

Put leading hook into vise. Measure wire length and cut so that wire will end about 1/8 inch behind eye. With Trailing tandem held straight up and behind wrap many times, the entire length of wire.
Put extra wraps ahead of wire to make a smooth transition - ramp from wire to hook shaft. Whip finish.
With thin CA or superglue lightly cover wire, let dry thoroughly.
re-start thread and wind to rear of leading hook. Bind in 4" of embroidery thread, and 3" gold tinsel. wind thread forward to 1/8" or a little more behind eye. In smooth even wraps cover hook with embroidery, then loose spiral tinsel and lock in place.

Next mix a sparse amount of yellow bucktail with brown and tie in to extend to, or just past, trailing hook.
Bind in sparse bunch of black bucktail.
Continue wrapping until a smooth even head is formed whip finish with 5 twists. and head cement (I prefer a superglue or thin CA head for bucktails).

Paint head with gold gloss enamel, dry, then paint on a black dot on each side (eyes)

This fly so represents a brown trout fry that no fish will be able to tell the difference. This fly is best fished when water conditions are clear, and minnows are seen near shore.

NOTE:
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