Stonefly

Recipe:

• Hook: Stimulator hook-1270
• Thread: 8/0 black
• Antenna: Black biot
• Head: Black 3/16 bead
• Tail: Black biot
• Body: Large black wire
• Throrax: Crystal chenille
• Wing: Medallion sheeting brown

Step 1:

Take needle nose pliers and bend hook point just enough to get bead around bend

Step 2:

Put a very small amount of dubbing at eye of hook, this helps keep your biots seperated. Take two biots and cross them and place them just behind the dubbing. Don't trim off the extra biot just secure it with the thread, this helps make a thicker body. Tie off and slide the bead up over the biots.

Step 3:

Secure the tail the same as you do the head biots.

Step 4:

Tie in your wire about a quarter of the way up the hook and wind it back to the biots and then back over itself, this will give it a wide loooking abdomen. It also will look segmented.

Step 5:

Tie in the chenille and do about four wraps this will make it thicker and buggy. Tie in the sheeting, pull back it to get it out of your way. Wrap the chenille foreward to the head, secure it and cut excess. Then pull the sheeting foreward to the head and secure. Then pull it back and do several wraps to make the sheetiing lie so it looks like wing cases.

Step 6:

Cut a V in the sheeting.

Step 7:

Tie off the head and add head cement. I trim off all the chenille on the bottom to give it a flat profile like the real one.