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Wooly Baetis
Cheech of Fly Fish Food ties this Blue Winged Olive nymph as a variation on the RS2, adding a dubbed thorax under a wing case of black flashback tinsel. A Wee Wool body stays slim but still looks buggy, and it gives you something a little different to show fish during a local Baetis hatch. A tan glass bead sits at the head, and the colors are easy to change to match the bugs on your own water. Tied here on a size 20 hook.
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Materials
Mayfly Tails, Medium Dun
Medium Dun
SLF Prism Bug Dub Dubbing, gray (or Wapsi Super Fine Dry Fly Dubbing, Adam's Gray)
Gray
How to Tie the Wooly Baetis
- 1
Step 1
Slide the glass bead onto the hook and up to the eye, then mount the hook in the vise.
- 2
Step 2
Start the olive thread behind the bead.
- 3
Step 3
Tie in a length of Wee Wool and bind it down along the shank to the bend, leaving the yarn hanging at the rear.
- 4
Step 4
Tie in two Mayfly Tails fibers at the bend so they spread apart behind the hook. Trim the excess.
- 5
Step 5
Bring the thread forward to the end of the body, leaving room for the thorax behind the bead.
- 6
Step 6
Wrap the Wee Wool forward to the thread to make a slim, buggy body. Tie it off and trim the excess.
- 7
Step 7
Tie in a strip of black flashback tinsel on top of the shank at the front of the body, with the long end pointing back over the body.
- 8
Step 8
Dub the thread lightly with Prism Bug Dub and wrap a thorax up to the bead.
- 9
Step 9
Pull the tinsel forward over the thorax and tie it down behind the bead. Trim the excess.
- 10
Step 10
Whip finish behind the bead and cut the thread.
Watch Tying Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqNBtuJh0xE
Credit: Cheech / Fly Fish Food