Tiger bibio

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This combination of my Bibio variant and Peter Walsh’s tiger midge.

Fish it in the same way as you would fish a bibio … often it will come up trumps.

Materials

 

Hook Thread Weight Ribbing Body Thorax Hackle
Knaped grub hook in size #14 Black Just the ribbing wire 6 wraps of medium 10 gr #30 copper wire Hends Spectra dubbing #46 (peacock) Hends Spectra dubbing #35 (burnt orange) Crow

Process

 

A
  1. Wind the thread from the 95% position to the start of the bend of the hook.

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  2. Return the thread back along the body to the 95% position.
  3. Starting at the 95% position and extending to half way round the bend of the hook tie in a length of copper wire along the top of the hook shank.

 

B
  1. Select a small amount of dubbing and using the single strand dubbing technique dub a uniform body on the rear 2/3 of hook shank.

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C
  1. Take a pinch of the orange dubbing mix and extend the body forward to the 95% position forming an orange thorax.
  2. Wind the copper wire forward along the body using the copper wire as a rib that cuts the body into 6 or 7 segments.
  3. Take a couple of wraps of the copper wire behind the eye of the hook and worry of the excess copper wire.

 

D
  1. Tie in a hackle, by the tip at the 95% position.

 

E
  1. Trim off the tip of the feather where it is tied in.
  2. Take just 1 or 2 turns of the feather at the 95% position.
  3. Tie the feather off and trim the butt with a blade rather than scissors.
  4. Build up a neat thread head.
  5. Whip finish, trim and varnish the thread directly behind the eye of the hook.