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Bumblepuppy

Hook – Streamer style
Thread - Black
Tail - Dyed red hackle fibers
Body - White wool or chenille
Ribbing - Red wool or doubled strand of red uni stretch
Throat - 2 turns of red and white hackle mixed to make a sparse collar
Wing - White bucktail with the lower half clipped short and the top half extending slightly beyond tail
Over wing - Matched brown turkey tail feather sections extending to beginning of tail

There are different recipes on the internet - this is the one i chose

(Herm Christian Variation)

I knew I was going to like this one before even opening the post. This is a pattern I've intended to fish, but have yet to try. Perhaps 2022 is my year!

Thanks for sharing Norm.