Step 1
Run the thread to a position opposite the barb.
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Run the thread to a position opposite the barb.
Catch some deer hair onto the hookshank and pull the thread tight causing it to spin.
Catch some more deer hair onto the hookshank, trying to lay the hair over the top of the last tying and pull tight causing it to spin again and pack tight with the packing tool.
Catch some more deer hair onto the hookshank and pull tight causing it to spin again. Now pack the deer hair together very tight again using a packing tool.
Catch some more deer hair onto the hookshank and pull tight causing it to spin again. Now pack the deer hair together very tight using a packing tool.
Continue spinning and packing the deer hair up the hookshank until about 1/3 of the hookshank length from the eye.
Now for the fun bit, trim the deer hair with sharp scissors or scalpel until the desired shape is obtained.
Catch in a Red Game Hackle at the end of the body. (Don't start winding it yet)
Catch in two pheasant tail fibres angled at around 30 degrees away from the eye. (These are going to act as the antennae) and trim waste ends.
Wind the hackle towards the eye, secure with thread and trim waste.
Build a neat head ,whip finish and varnish the head.
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
Hare's Ear
Parasol Buzzer
Humungus
Black Gnat (Wet)
White Wingless Wickhams
Montana Pheasant Tail
Foam Beetle
Wickham's Fancy
Mobile Montana
Baby Doll
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)