Tying Instructions: Hamburgler

1) Prepare the foam and rubber leg pieces.The overbody foam should be equal to or slightly wider than the hook gap. The underbody layer of foam should be cut slightly narrower than the hook gap.
Step One
2) Lay a thread foundation from behind the eye of the hook to the start of the bend.
Step Two
3) With the overbody foam, trim a point on the end of the foam and attach the foam point just in front of the bend.
Step Three
4) Dub the thread with Peacock Ice dubbing and lock in the dubbing to the hook shank with a wrap.
Step Four
5) Wrap the dubbing forward to just behind the eye. Keep one eyelength behind the eye free of dubbing.
Step Five
6) Make a point on the underbody foam and attach the foam point just in front of the dubbing and secure with thread wraps.
Step Six
7) Create three foam segments with thread wraps going back to the bend of the hook. The first segment should be larger than the last segment for a tapered appearance of the underbody.
Step Seven
8) Dub the thread with ice dubbing.
Step Eight
9) Wrap the dubbing between the segments.
Step Nine

10) Clip off the tag end of the underbody foam.
Step Ten
11) Bring the overbody foam over the segmented underbody and secure with a couple of thread wraps behind the eye.
Step Eleven
12) Place a piece of the red rubberleg within the crevice of the foam and bring the tag end of the overbody back over the red piece, trapping the red rubberleg within the foam. This creates a head.
Step Twelve
13) Secure the overbody foam with a couple of thread wraps.
Step Thirteen
14) Trim the red rubberleg flush to the foam.
Step Fourteen

15) Attach a set of black rubberlegs to each side of the shank for legs. The thread wraps will be placed in the same location as when you formed the head.
Step Fifteen

16) Secure a piece of Cerise McFlylon for an indicator behind the tag end of the overbody.
Step Sixteen

17) Dub the thread once more with the Peacock Ice dubbing and wrap the dubbing once or twice between the head and the tag end of the overbody hiding the thread when you attached the legs.
Step Seventeen

18) Whip Finish with a couple of wraps.
Step Eighteen

19) Trim off the tag end of the thread.
Step Nineteen

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