Black Midge Pupa: a Polly Rosborough fly

using the recipe and photo in The Founding Flies by Mike Valla

Hook: #12-18 down eye nymph
Thread: gray
Tag 1: black ostrich flue
Tag 2: grizzly hackle
Body: muskrat or similar color synthetic

Rosborough tied this fly in a variety of colors from red to tan.

Head cement recipe:
Goop
Xylene (epoxy thinnner)

Instructions:
Fill a quart jar half full with Xylene
Squeeze a tube of Goop into the Xylene
Shake until the Goop is dissolved; add Xylene to desired consistency

Apply with a pin or needle dipped in the liquid

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