Tying Instructions: Tungstone

1. Attach the bead to the hook and slide the bead up to eye. Secure the thread behind the bead and lay a thread foundation to the bend of the hook.
Step One
2. Clip a pair of Goose Biots off the quill and oppose the pair so that they curve away from each other. Measure the tips of the biots so that they will be half of the hook shank.Attach the biots to each side of the hook shank securing with a couple of tight wraps at the bend of the hook.
Step Two
3. Secure the butt ends of the biots along each side of the shank with thread wraps. Attach the clear 3X tippet ribbing to the bottom of the hook shank and secure to the tail tie-in position.
Step Three
4. Trim a slip of Duraskin that is about 1/2 the hook gap.
Step Four
5. Secure a piece of Lateral Scale to the top of the hook shank and wrap to the tail tie-in position. Make sure that the Lateral Scale is centered to the top of the hook.
Step Five
6. Next, attach the Duraskin slip that you prepared to the top of the hook shank, centered directly over the Lateral Scale. Secure with thread wraps to the tail tie-in position.
Step Six
7. Apply dubbing to the thread and start the dubbing wrap at the tail tie-in position. Lock a few fibers with the first wrap against the shank, then twist the dubbing around the thread to tighten.
Step Seven
8. Create a tapered abdomen with the dubbing and finished at the 65% position.
Step Eight
9. Bring the Duraskin over the abdomen, centered on the top of the hook shank. Secure with a few thread wraps in front of the abdomen.
Step Nine
10. Next, bring the Lateral Scale over the abdomen for the flashback. Secure the scale with a few thread wraps in front of the abdomen.
Step Ten
11. Wrap the 3X tippet ribbing forward with 5-6 spirol wraps to the front of the abdomen and secure with some tight thread wraps.
Step Eleven
12. Clip off two clumps of a dozen Partridge Fibers from two matching feathers and secure one clump of fibers to each side of the thorax behind the bead. The length of the fibers should not extend beyond the point of the hook.
Step Twelve
13. Build a thorax as a small ball in front and overlapping the abdomen.
Step Thirteen
14. Attach two clumps of brown hen saddle fibers to each side of the hook shank in front of the thorax ball. Adjust the leg length so that the legs do not extend past the hook point.
Step Fourteen
15. Attach a strip of Duraskin in front of the thorax for a wingcase. The wingcase should cover the thorax and not extend past the leg tips.
Step Fifteen
16. Apply some dubbing in front of the first pair of legs for a second thorax section.
Step Sixteen
17. Attach a second pair of legs from Brown Hen Saddle fiber clumps to each side of the hook shank in front of the dubbed thorax.
Step Seventeen
18. Trim off the butt ends of the legs and secure with thread wraps. Attach a second strip of duraskin for another wingcase segment. It should cover about half of the first wingcase. Secure with tight thread wraps.
Step Eighteen
19. Trim off the butt end of the wingcase strip and apply a collar of dubbing just behind the bead. Whip Finish.
Step Nineteen

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