Hook : Gamakatsu SC15 # 2 or mustad 34007 4,6,8

Thread : 3/0 Red Monocord

Tail : 6 strands of brown marabou blood quills

Short tail : small tuft of tan marabou blood quills striped from one side of quill. To hold brown Marabou up and away from fouling

Eye : bead chain or x small plain lead for deeper water

Body : Brown n yellow Variegated Chenille

Hackel : Tan Hackle “Cree if you have them”

1) Jamb knot and go almost half
way down the bend of the hook
and come back up to the hook point ready to tie in the Brown marabou strands

2) Take 5 or 6 strands of dark brown marabou tie in back down to where the thread is down the bend of the hook bring thread back to hook point ready for the short tuft of tan marabou

3) Tie in tan marabou just like the brown but keep it short no longer than 1/3 of the brown marabou… now before you tie in the tan rip off all the longer quills on the tan to make it short and full. Don’t cut it pull it with you fingers…a more natural look

4) Tie in x small lead eyes or bead chain RIGHT ABOVE THE HOOK BARB!!!! or just before the bend of the hook, thats very important ( I did not do that in the picture and had to move it back!!!) If you don’t it will not taper like you want it to….

5) Tie in Tan grizzly or cree hackle and palmer almost to the eyes… leave room for the chenille head about 3/16″ will do… The size hackle I used is a little to big for the fly go one and half the size of the hook gap and it will look perfect…

6)Tie in the chenille three wraps in front of eyes 1/4″ is good… now wrap back 3 times to eyes the go over the top of the eyes around back by the hackle one time then under the eyes and once in front…( make a nice sized head around the eyes but not to much bigger than the eyes ) Then single wrap to the hook to the eye to form a nice taper…Make a small red head…

Note: put down cement on the thread before you do the chenille and it makes a very strong fly…

Mirror
Razor Blade
Glass eye dropper
Delta paint (don’t try another type of paint Delta will hold a mound shape and won’t run)
clear nail polish

use dropper to make size and color eye that you want…

let dry

use dropper for pupils

clear nail polish or epoxy for finish

these are the first ones i did… and the gold ones were my last ones i made… as you can see it doesn’t take long to get them to match in size

hook as needed

neer hair or sim.

tie on top and bottom of hook shank as you go

use gold homemade eyes