- Hook -- Tiemco 800S or Wright & McGill 254 plated 2/0 to 4/0 (use short-shank hooks only!).
Alternatively, you may use Eagle Claw 413, which Blanton now uses for this fly.
- Thread -- Danville's Fly-Master Plus or equivalent, red.
- Snag guard -- (Optional) Size 6 or 7 doubled single strand leader wire, coffee colored.
- Optics -- Large to extra-large silver chain-beads.
- Under-body -- Ten turns of .030 lead wire.
- Tail/wing -- Two to three medium bunches of white bucktail, soft and crinkly.
- Flashtail -- 40 to 50 strands of a 50:50 mix of silver and pearl Flashabou, regular, not saltwater.
- Tail/wing topping -- Hot pink (cerise) bucktail, medium bunch over white; small bunch of purple bucktail
- Shoulder flash -- Ten strands of pink or hot pink Crystal Flash.
- Side flash -- Ten strands of multi-colored (rainbow) Crystal Flash.
- Side hackle -- One large grizzly neck hackle centered on each side just short length of tail.
- Body/collar -- Two turns of medium red chenille.
- Hackle/collar -- Wide collar, two wide, webby white saddle or neck hackle, faced with a large, webby grizzly neck hackle.
- Head -- Red tying tread, several turns in front and in back of bead-chain optics
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