Marabou

Tying Instructions: Floating Nymph, BWO



	1. Press the barb with the vise and secure the hook to the vise. Attach the thread and lay a thread foundation to the bend of the hook.
	2. Select a Medium Dun spade hackle and remover about 10 fibers for the tail for a size 16-18 hook. Reduce the fibers to 5-6 for size 20 or smaller.
	3. Tie in dun hackles for tail with a length equivalent to the hook shank. Wrap the butt ends up to the midpoint of the shank and trim the excess.
	4. Attach Olive-colored wire for ribbing below the shank and secure with wraps to the base of the tail.
	5. Apply one wrap of the thread to the base of the tail fibers to lift the fibers and help separate.
	6. Dub a tapered body with Blue Wing Olive Superfine, to approximately 80% of hook shank length.
	7. Finish the tapered body at the 80% position.
	8. Wrap the ribbing forward with 5-6 spiral wraps and secure with thread wraps just in front of the body.
	9. Invert the hook with the vise and apply Light Gray Superfine to the thread. Twist the dubbing around the thread keeping the mass close to the shank.
	10. Compress the dubbing towards the shank with your fingers and rewind the thread slack, keeping the bobbin close to the dubbing.
	11. Bring the hook back to the upright position with the vise. When the dubbing gets tight enough to twist the thread, twist the dubbed thread even more with your finger and thumb, then hold the dubbed ball with your finger and thumb and bring the thread around the shank directly in front of the dubbed ball and secure with 2-3 additional wraps. The extra twists you add will cause the dubbed thread to wind upon itself.
	12. Place a few wraps around the base of the dubbed ball.
	13. Add a clump of 15-20 hackle fibers for legs. Even the tips in a stacker and position the fibers below the hook shank with the thread bisecting the fibers so that there is an equal number on each side of the thread. .
	14. Secure with one thread wrap just in front of the dubbed ball. Adjust the length so that they do not extend beyond the end of the body and secure with additional thread wraps.
	15. Finish the thorax by dubbing Blue Wing Olive Superfine. Make sure to bring the dubbing up tightly against the body so that there is no gap between the thorax and the body. Apply an X wrap on either side of the dubbed wing.
	16. Tie off and whip finish. The Finished Floating Nymph.