The Graboid Leech by Midnight Sun Custom Flies is uber fishy, effective, versatile, and a great tie. Like other great patterns, the Graboid�s beauty is in its simplicity. This week in Fly Tying, we leverage the Graboid pattern and...

The Graboid Leech by Midnight Sun Custom Flies is uber fishy, effective, versatile, and a great tie. Like other great patterns, the Graboid�s beauty is in its simplicity.

This week in Fly Tying, we leverage the Graboid pattern and turn it into a Chinook (King) Salmon Pattern. Why not?

Original Fly Design: Jonathan Farmer of Midnight Sun Custom Flies. IG: @midnightsuncustomflies

Tied by Brian Davenport, Photos by Mike Brown, both of Mossy�s Fly Shop in Anchorage, Alaska. IG: @mossysflyshop.

Step 1. Slide your bead onto the shank and place it in the vice.� Attach your stinger material, adjust the overall length to 4�

Step 2.� Attach your rabbit, make the tail a little longer than the stinger material.� Do Not cut the rabbit, fold back out of way.

Step 3.� Build a composite loop of your Kraken and Ice Dub

Step 4.� Spin the dubbing and thoroughly pick out, you want to have a thin core before you wrap.� You will need appx 5 turns worth

Step 5.� Wrap your dubbing forward appx 5 turns., sweeping the material back with every turn.� Tie off and trim.

Step 6.� Place your Fusion Dub in a dubbing loop, you will need appx. 3 turns worth.

Step 7.� Spin the dubbing and pick out to a thing core.

Step 8. Wrap forward, sweeping back with each turn, appx 3 turns.� Leave appx 2 hook eye widths of the gap.

Step 9.� Sweep all your dubbing down, leaving it parted on top.� Pull your rabbit strip over the top and tie down.

Step 10.� Tie in 2 strands of flash, and place down the flank.� Repeat this on the other side.

Step 11.� Tie in your rubber legs, and place down the flank.� Repeat this on the other side.

Step 12. Place appx 3� of rabbit in a dubbing loop, minus the hide.

Step 13.� Spin and brush out.

Step 14.� Wrap the rabbit tight into the back of the bead, and whip finish.

Step 15:� Install hook and half hitch tail on to the hook.

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