Muskins PTN

 

This is very popular Northern hemisphere fly and whist it more popular in still water it also has its uses in running water. Appealing to fish that are on mixed diet that includes mayfly nymph and midge.

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Materials

 

Hook Thread Tai and body Ribbing Thorax Wing casing Breathers
10 to 14 nymph (Knapek nymph hook) Olive Pheasant tail fibres Fine copper wire Peacock herl Pheasant tail fibres White antron fibres

Process

 

A
  1. Wind the thread from the 95% position to the bend of the hook.
  2. Tie in a tail of 3 to 5 Pheasant tail fibres tips. The tips should form a tail no longer than the length of the hook shank. Resist the temptation to make the tail too bulky and too long.
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B
  1. Tie in a length of copper wire along the top of the hook shank.
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C
  1. Tie in a small bunch of longer Pleasant tail fibres by their tips at the bend of the hook. The number you tie in will depend on the quality of your Pheasant tail feather but generally it's around 3 or 4 fibres.
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D
  1. Pick up the Pheasant tail fibres that you tied in above at step C and wind them forward in touching turns. I generally take them well forward past the back of where the wing casing will be tied in and tie them off somewhere in the area that will be in the middle of the thorax.
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E
  1. Trim off the butt ends.
  2. Pick up the copper wire and wind it forward creating 4 or 5 body segments on the rear half of the fly.
  3. Wind the wire forward to about the 90% position and worry off the excess.
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F
  1. Select 6 to 8 pheasant tail barbules for the wing casing and tie them in on top of the hook shank at about the 60% position with half the fibres facing forward and the other half facing forward.
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G
  1. Tie in 3 or 4 peacock herl half way along the body of the fly.
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H
  1. Wrap the Peacock herl around the thread forming a herl and rope thread and wind the herl rope forward to the 90% position forming the thorax of the fly.
  2. Trim away the excess Peacock herl and load the thread with a small amount of white antron fibres.
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I
  1. Wind the thread loaded with the white antron fibres around the hook shank forming a wispy collar in front of the thorax.
  2. Pull the wing casing material forward over the top of the thorax and the antron collar and tie it off just a little back from the eye of the hook.
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J
  1. Trim away the remaining butt ends of the wing casing material.
  2. Build up a neat thread head.
  3. Apply a coat of head cement along the top of the wing casing of the fly and the thread head.
  4. Using a bodkin or Velcro pick out some of the white antron to represent breathers.
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Last Updated: January 24, 2016
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Categories: Emergers, Flies, Nymphs, Trout flies
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