Tying Quasimodo BHFBPT 31Aug18

We're headed to Gunnison Co so I need some weight which mimics the venerable maycadstone fly... enter Quasimodo. The Q is a tungsten beadhead, flash back, pheasant tail (BHFBPT) fly which works well as a top fly on freestones - like the Ark, the Gunny, and the Fork. I don't know what fish think it is but I prefer gold and brass variants of this in #20 and #22. Here's a set ready to hunt.

Recipe/Ingredients:

• Hook: #20-22 TMC 2488H
• Thread: 70 rusty brown UTC UltraThread
• Head: 2mm copper or gold tungsten bead
• Tail: ~8 pheasant tail fibers
• Body: pheasant tail fibers counter-over-wrapped with copper or gold S wire
• Thorax: 2 peacock herl (I prefer mixing a reddish one with a green one)
• Wing Casing: pheasant tail flattened then topped by pearl mylar tinsel
• Legs: pheasant tail fibers folded back and trimmed

Here We Go...

Add tungsten bead (copper or gold - opening to back)
to 2488H hook and place in vise

Select (assuring even) 8 mottled brown-olive
pheasant tail fibers and tie on with 2 wraps -
also tie in size S wire in color matching bead

Fold back tag of clump of PT fibers - wrap over
the whole mess to 1/2 way pt of hook bend  then
wrap thread back to just behind bead

"Flatten" PT clump and wrap forward evently
to bead and bind in with 2 wraps

After binding, leave tag PT fibers pointing to ceiling;
then counter-wrap wire forward over PT body and bind
in - then helicopter off the tag end

Behind PT fibers. tie in size M pearl mylar

Tie back over everything -
to make room for a thorax ~ size of bead

Bind in 2 pieces of peacock herl and twist them
together ~6X

Wrap herl into a thorax ~4X wraps

Fold PT fiber tags forward over peacock thorax
and bind in just behind bead

Divide PT fiber tag ends into equal L&R amounts
split by pearl mylar brought forward overtop
of PT wing casing

Pull PT tag ends down and back while
whip finishing behind bead head

Trim L&R PT fiber tags to equal lengths just less
than hook gap in size - these are legs

DONE!