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    Posted: 15 Dec 2007 at 11:39am
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I sort of borrowed the basic pattern here from the fat boy, plus some of Ted's kingi flies I saw. I added in my own bits and pieces, as you do. These are tied in 8/0 and 10/0, the idea is to attrract a kingi to the boat and then dump this in front of him. I've done neither of these things just yet, so anything I say here could just be crap!!! Flies go from 10 - 14 cm...
 
Hook: SL12S 8/0 -10/0
Underbody: Ezibody tube, wide, tied and doubled to form rear facing cone (see Clark's tie of fat boy for better instruction)
Wing - belly: white clown hair, back - what ever colour clown hair spins your wheels
Cheek: I used silver holofusion, it looks nice
Eye: Big prismatic stick on (10mm)
Head: Mylar tube tied in, 2 layers of expoxy (1 over eyes)
Body finish: I used selleys silicon to shape the body, back to curve of hook as prior to that I was getting too many tail wraps. Silicon makes a nice squishy body too.
 
Lots of colours:
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Looks nice but here in sweden i would reject them
because of the lack of tapering of the wing.
But it seems like the fish down under doesnt care
to much so it will surely work.
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Ps. Nice with the sideline in the fly dS
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Yeah they could be tapered with a bit of trimming I guess...
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