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Join Bennett-Watt and learn how to make the CDC Peacock Beetle fishing fly.

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How to Make the CDC Peacock Beetle Fishing Fly Beetles can be either aquatic or terrestrial. In other words, they can be water based or land based, either way, I try to love beetles too. There is a beetle that I think, does as good job as I have seen in duplicating to your desolate nature of a lot of the beetles that we see. Black seems to be the dominant color and we’re going to incorporate some peacock herl and to accomplish then that we had air essence. We’re going to begin with a thread foundation again. Tripping that hook shanks securely. And move that back just behind the barb of the hook. And go forward to the center. For legs, we’re going to use probably come out nice and soft. And we can get by with a relatively small of amount of this material. So I’ll get the flotation and the balance system that we need. Square these tips up. This is where this is two, two CDC feathers. I'm going to tie them in center of the hook shank. Bring them back with the thumb on length of these legs. Probably it’s about three quarters in length of the hook shank. Off the excess, what we’re going to do is just try to mostly figurate terms of tying feathers and divide these two tips of the CDC down on the side of the hook shank and down. Let’s make it contact with the water. Now this is for some to get more of a definition of the legs that would be there. But we can also turn some of the excess out here. Okay, for the back of beetle, I'm going to use this actually the same material we used for the legs on. This is little more different than these was two. two CDC feathers paired together and both face the same direction that we’re going to pull as much of this nice fiber up in the tummy and base we can. This looks real awesome. We add up to square it up. And we will just tie that right down in the back of the legs. And we’re going to back with the tying thread. And we’ll go back to the barb of the - .For the body, we’re going to use peacock herl. And I’ve already stripped this from this and it looks nicely. We want a good stuff. We want a really nice as the stuff that comes from off in this area up here around the eye of the stack. And we can go by with much less material when we do that. And accomplish a little of the fly and more for actual fly. I'm trying tips running off. That is --right back at the see according to the time. The two CDC feathers and we’re working our way forward. Turn around the wings. I'm just going to wrap this peacock herl and most live tiers was a— plan experiments to them and so I like twist them, with more durability and just work our way forward. Up right up against the back of the base back forward in front of the legs. You keep twisting as we go. This is really nice. It a bit fuzzy - hand and it tie this right down on top. I'm looking for the hook shank. Give a little bit of space between this tight on here in the eye of the hook. We don’t want to finish underneath this. Sticks to them what was left. Of course CDC fibers forward, the legs and come back and pick up. You got two CDC feathers winding up just a little right there. One is back from where the top. And it was all fair, it would be tied up. We try to curl again right on top of the little shank. Pull everything back to the rear. Return to the half of the secure that in place. Right a couple underneath, it looks like it got of the way, so we’re going to finish. Tight in, set it free. Okay, I'm going to pull all of those forward using the angle of the eye of the hook as a guide line, we’ll just snip this off and then we’ll represent the head of the beetle. Legs out to the side. Of we have some lunch. I'm going to try it around.