tie a slow sinking bug
the slow sinking bug will sink at 1ft every 5 seconds using 7mm dumbell eyes , a great fly for searching the depths , still giveing that great action that youd expect from a bug
materials 4/0 sakuma manta , pearl flashbou belly , white sf fibre back , red saddle hackle , red deerhair , 7mm dumbbell eyes .
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1. tie in 7 inchs of pearl flashbou , the back end has 4 inchs with 3 inchs in front fold this over so you have 3 inchs sitting on top of the 4 inchs and whip down this gives you the belly as in the picture below
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2. tie in some peal sf flash the same length as the longest flashbou
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3 . tie in a shorter piece of sf on top of that
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4.tie in a red cock hackle dont wory about untidy shank this is hidden later on
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5 . tie in a further couple of hackles
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6. tie in your deer hair with a couple of wraps then pull tight to flare
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7. tie in anothe piece of deerhair flaire and push tight against the last piece
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8.tie in the dumbell eyes (these are 7mm) make sure you place the eyes as close to the back of the deerhair as possible
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9. another piece of deerhair just in front off the eyes and flare the eyes will show once you have trimed
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after triming this is the result , the fly has been wetted to show the profile
![](https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3.spanglefish.com/s/9977/pictures/big/1.13.jpg)
the wetted fly has standard dumbell eyes you can if you wish like i have stick eyes over the dumbells to add effect i find it gives the flys an edge but its up to you
*off course you can replace the body material with anything you like or your favorite colours the skys the limit