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Materials used
for this fly. |
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2" 2mm
plastic tube.
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Small silver
conehead
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Medium oval silver
tinsel.
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Yellow &
green Antron yarn
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Green
Angelhair
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Fluo green &
black starlight dubbing.
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Black cock
hackle feather.
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Black &
Green highlander temple dog.
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Black
Angelhair, fluo green Finehair, Come's alive flash,
green.
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Guinea
hackle.
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Materials for body & wing. |
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Here's
plastic tube & conehead together with the other
materials. |
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2" 2mm
plastic tube & small silver conehead |
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Guinea
hackle for front hackle. |
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Tools
used for this operation. |
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Antron
yarn & tinsel for tail & rib. |
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Green &
yellow Antron yarn brushed together with green
Angelhair, for preparing the tail. |
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Plastic tube
mounted in tube-vise. |
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Tie in the
thread. Leave a ½" at the rear end of tube. |
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Tie in medium
silver tinsel for the tag. |
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Wrap five turns. |
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Cut off the
surplus. |
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Tie in the
tinsel again, next to the tag. |
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Prepare the
foundation for the rear body and the tail. |
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Here the tail
has been tied in. |
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Make a thread
loop in a dubbing twister. |
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Fluo green
Starlight dubbing is put into the thread loop. |
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The dubbing is
twisted. |
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The rear body
has been dubbed. |
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Tie in the body
hackle in the tip. |
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Bend over the
tip & secure it by the thread. |
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Make a new loop,
this time with black Starlight dubbing. |
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Twist dubbing
and turn it on the body. |
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The rib has been
wrapped, 5 turns. |
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Turn thee body
hackle over black part only, secure and cut off surplus. |
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Prepare the
upperwing. |
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The top wing is
tied in first of all and the tail is trimmed. |
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By your
thumbnail, press hair half way around the tube on top. |
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Tie in 4 strands
Come's alive flash. |
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Tie in 6 strands
of fluo green Finehair. |
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Tie in the green
inner wing, shorter than the black topwing. |
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Guinea hackle
for front hackle, tied in at the tip. |
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Guinea hackle is
turned. |
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Guinea hackle is
secured and surplus cut away. |
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Sorry, bad
photo. Just to show that the hair is turned rear over the
body. |
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The thread is on
outside of the wing. |
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Make a whip
finish knot. |
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Here the needle
is turned opposite |
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The conehead is
mounted on the end of the tube and the wing has been flipped
over. |
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Now, press the
conehead against the body, compress the body as much as
possible, to avoid loose conehead during fishing. |
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The finished
fly. |
