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This is the fly to use when beetles or snails are on the surface.
The fly is made up of a peacock herl body, over which a back and head are created from a number of black pheasant tail hackles. The ends of the hackles are then tied in various areas along the hook shank to imitate legs and feelers.
Wind the thread down the hookshank to a position opposite the barb, catching in around 3 pieces of peacock herl as you go.
Catch in 6 black pheasant tail fibres (These will create the back and thorax cover).
Wind the thread up 2/3 of the hookshank, pull the peacock herl forward and secure with thread (Layer 1 of the herl).
Wind the thread back down to where you started, pull the peacock herl back and secure with thread (Layer 2 of the herl).
Wind the thread up 2/3 of the hookshank again, pull the peacock herl forward and secure with thread (Layer 3 of the herl).
Pull the pheasant tail fibres forward and catch in at the same place as that of the peacock herl.
Move the thread up to the eye.
Pull the peacock herl forward towards the eye and secure with thread, trim the waste.
Pull the pheasant tail fibres loosly forward, allowing them to create a type of head and secure with thread. Trim the fibres in front of the hook eye.
The waste pheasant tail fibres can be secured back in and pulled backwards to create the legs, then trimmed to length.
Hare's Ear
Parasol Buzzer
Humungus
Black Gnat (Wet)
White Wingless Wickhams
Montana Pheasant Tail
Foam Beetle
Wickham's Fancy
Mobile Montana
Baby Doll
Cormorant
Dawson's Olive
Adams
Black Tiny Miracle Buzzer
Black and Peacock Spider
Cat's Whisker
Hot Orange Wingless Wickhams
Black Pennell
Daddy
Flashback Damsel
Matchstick Buzzer
Parachute Adams
Thorax Adams
Red Tiny Miracle Buzzer
Humungus
Corixa
UV Straggle Hare's Ear
Flexifloss Buzzer
Diawl Bach
Olive Tiny Miracle Buzzer
Bristol Hopper
Red Tag
Goddard Caddis
Yellow Dancer
Ice Buzzer
Zulu
Pheasant Tail Nymph
Haemoglobin Buzzer
CDC Emerger
Cruncher
Flexifloss Buzzer
Beaded Bloodworm
Viva
Okay Dokey
Fritz Lure
Black Pensioner
Hare's Ear Flashback
Concrete Bowl
Griffiths Gnat
Apps Bloodworm
Montana
Muddler Daddy
Goldhead Bloodworm
Nomad
Klinkhamer
Stickfly
CDC Emerger
Blob
Brassie Buzzer
Black Gnat
Woolly Bugger
Wickham's Snatcher
Palmered Red Tag
Dawsons Olive
Warm Springs Caddis
F-Fly
Undertaker
Straggle Pheasant Tail Nymph
Tadpole (Taddy)
Bi-Visible
Bibio
Silver Sparkler
Kate McLaren
Minkie
Black and Peacock (Dry)