Floating version of the Lake Dragon; fish it on a sinking line and you can keep it above the weed beds

hook - TMC 5212 #6
thread - UTC 140 brown olive
eyes - plastic dumbell black
tail - chickabou grizzly olive
body - deer hair olive
legs - chickabou grizzly olive
wing case - turkey tail
head - dubbing mix angora brown olive/Simi Seal olive spectrum


Part 1

mash barb, attach thread




tie in the eyes; after the fact, I realized that it would have been better to spin/trim the deer hair body first




take the thread back to point above the hook barb, measure a clump of chicabou (hook gap distance) and tie in; smooth butts with thread wraps and return thread to tail tie in








clean a clump of deer hair and trim tips (no need to stack)




tie in with 2 soft loops, firmly pull thread and spin the deer hair around the hook