Not sure if there's a clamoring for an upside down, foam-bodied, hacklestacker spruce moth, but if there ever is, I'm in on the ground floor. May consider the decaf tomorrow.


hook - Dai Riki 280 #12
thread - UTC 140 tan
abdomen - 1mm foam tan
hackle - barred cream
wing - deer hair bleached


Part 1

mash barb, invert hook, start thread




tie in foam, brush on Super Glue, wrap body to bend and return; tie off/trim










tie in thread loop (UTC 140 cream used here); hook onto the gallows





tie in hackle at base, wrap hackle up the loop (thorax width) and back down; tie off at base, trim






stroke hackle fibers back

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