Triangle Bug

The Triangle Bug is a great pattern for pan fish, like Bluegill and Crappie, as well as Bass. It's fun and easy to tie!
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Begin with 2 mil green foam and cut a strip a little over a quarter inch in width and two times the length of the hook shank. Double it over and cut it diagonally from the center of the back to the forward edge of the folded section. Make the same cut from the back to the other forward edge. You will have a diamond shape when done with the fold at the center of the diamond. Use your scissors to poke a hole through the center of the fold in the diamond shape.

Using green thread, start behind the hook eye laying a thread base back to the hook bend and return the thread to three eye lengths behind the hook eye. Cut a clump of bucktail hairs from a chartreuse bucktail about a quarter of the diameter of a pencil. Lay the hairs on the top of the hookshank so the hairs extend at least two hook shank lengths behind the end of the hook. Now begin securing the bucktail to the top of the hook all the way back to the hook bend and then take wraps back toward the front until you are two hook eye lengths behind the hook eye. Cut the butt ends off at an angle and clean them up.

Next, take two sets of barred chartreuse rubber legs and secure them two eye lengths behind the hook eye. Take figure eight wraps through the rubber legs, securing them to the top of the hook shank. Once secure, move the thread back to the hook bend. Before tying on the foam body, trim one end (that will be on the underside of the hook) to a length so it just reaches the hook bend. This will allow it to fold without butting up against the wire hook.

Dab superglue to the top and bottom of the hook shank, basically coating the thread-wrapped bucktail and the location the rubber legs are tied in. Now, pull the foam diamond over the hook eye through the hole you have already poked through. The longer end of the diamond will be on top of the hook shank and the shorter end will be under the hook shank. Use your fingers to clamp the top and bottom against the hook shank and hold it in place for about 30 seconds. This will help it adhere.

Finally, take thread wraps around the foam at the hook bend, trying to avoid capturing the rubber legs. After four or five wraps, whip finish the fly back at the hook bend and remove your thread.