The White Moth

Step by Step's

Step 1

Catch in the thread onto the hookshank just a little way down from the eye.

Step 2

Take a bunch of white hackle fibres and secure to the hookshank with thread to a position opposite the barb. Return the thread to a position near the eye. Trim the waste fibres.

Step 3

Catch in a length of osterich herl, secure with thread down the hookshank until a position opposite the barb is reached. Return the thread to a position near the eye.

Step 4

Carefully wind the osterich herl up the hookshank and secure with thread near the eye. Trim the waste herl.

Wind the thread back down the hookshank to a position around 1/3 hookshank length from the eye. This will allow sufficient space to tie in the wings, thorax hackle and eye. Catch in a white cock hackle.

Step 6

Take two white cock hackle tips and secure to the hookshank. These need to be tied vertical but angled slightly away from each other (V shape). Take the cock Hackle and wind it up to the eye, each turn in front of the previous, pass between the cock hackle tips (wings) if you can when winding. Secure the hackle with thread and trim waste.