| Materials List | |
| Hook: | Eagle Claw 254 or Tiemco 811S 2/0 to 3/0 (may substitute Eagle Claw 413 60 degree jig hook) |
| Thread: | Hot Orange or Chartreuse Danville flat waxed or Fly Master Plus |
| Optics: | Large silver bead chain |
| Head: | Hot orange or chartreuse medium chenille topped with peacock herl |
| Tail | White bucktail; yellow bucktail; or chartreuse bucktail depending on pattern |
| Tail Flash: | Silver; gold; or chartreuse Flashabou; |
| Body: | Pearl; gold; or chartreuse Diamond braid |
| Hackle: | Large, webby, saddle - yellow; hot orange or chartreuse, tied wet, full |
| Wing: | Sparse bucktail of white; yellow or chartreuse, length of tail, but shorter than flashtail, with matching 10 strands of Crystal flash |
| Wing topping: | Peacock herl with 10 to 15 strands of peacock Crystal flash over herl |
| Shoulder hackle | Natural grizzly; hot orange or chartreuse saddle hackle, one each side length of wing |
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