Viva Snatcher
Hook - Fulling Mill Grub 12
Viva **** - Fl Chartreuse UTC 70 Thread
Thread - Black UTC 70 Thread
Body - Black seals fur Dubbed lightly
Rib - #14 Uni Mylar pearl Tinsel
Hackle - Black Hen hackle
Cheeks - Chartreuse goose biots
Evening all :wink
Here is a wee step by step for a viva snatcher that has being done well recently, hope you like it
Tie in the chartreuse thread half way down the hook and run it round the bend until you feel like you have a large enough green tag.
Run the thread back up to where you started the tag.
Tie in the black thread behind the eye and run down until it overlaps the chartreuse thread which in turn will secure it. Trim off the chartreuse thread to the bobbin holder and return the black thread back up to behind th eye.
Catch in the mylar tinsel behind the eye.
Run the black thread down over the mylar tinsel until you reach the tag, this does not have to be tidy as you will dubb back over this.
Apply some black seals fur very lightly.
Dubb the thread and wind back up to behind the eye to form a body.
Pick a hackle and hold it beside the hook. Personally for a snatcher i like the hackle to bee just larger than the gape of the hook.
Tie in the hackle behind the eye.
Give the hackle one full turn at the head then another 4/5 even turns all the way down the body.
Use the mylar tinsel to trap the hackle in and rib back up through the hackle.
Secure the rib in behind the eye.
Trim off the waste rib and hackle.
Tie in a couple of chartreuse goose biots as cheeks.
Trim off excess biots, whip finish fly and apply some sally hansen varnish,
Jobe done.
Mix these snatchers up and try a few diff variations
Tight lines ,
Baz
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