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Nutcracker Fly-Tying Instructions

a streamer to help you catch your next Big Trout!

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Nutcracker Streamer Pattern
  • Hook 9394 TMC size 2-8
  • Choice of rabbit strip for a tail
  • 2 Marabou Plumes
  • Crystal Flash
  • Wood or Mallard Flank Feather
  • Deer Hair Sculpin Head

Step-by-Step Fly Tying Instructions for the

Nutcracker

Nutcracker Fly-Tying Chernobyl Hopper
Step 1:Wrap your thread, notice where to start
Step 2: Place your rabbit strip and secure tightly
Nutcracker Fly-Tying
Nutcracker Fly-Tying
Step 3: 1st Marabou Plume tip first and wrap forward
Step 4:Tie in your 2nd Marabou Plume and also wrap forward
Nutcracker Fly-Tying
Nutcracker Fly-Tying
Step 5: Tie in Crystal Flash, we like a little bit of red!
Step 6:Tie in your Wood or Mallard Duck flank feather, and wrap forward. The step makes the marabou and rabbit really move.
Nutcracker Fly-Tying
Nutcracker Fly-Tying
Step 7: Create a deer hair collar, and start your sculpin head
Step 8:Add another nice clump of deer hair, after the collar repeat this step 2-3 times. More is good.
Nutcracker Fly-Tying
   
Step 9: Watch Ed tie in some deer hair
Step 10:Trim your deer hair head, to make a sculpin profile.