Recipe
Hook: Dry Fly 12-16
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Step 1: Mount your hook in the vise and wrap the thread to the bend of the hook. |
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Step 2: Dub a small tight ball over the barb of the hook. This will cock up the tail fibers |
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Step 3: Tie in the tail fibers. I tie them in a spread fan pattern, but feel free to split them or use microfibetts if you like. |
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Step 4: Tie in a Turkey biot by the tip. Mahogany, brown, dark brown, coachman-whatever color you like. This is a dark brown biot. |
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Step 5: On biot bodies I like to apply a thin layer of super glue. If applied very lightly it won’t affect the color but will guarantee that the biot will outlast the hackle. |
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Step 6: Wind the biot to form the abdomen. I wind them “notch up” to provide the ribbed effect. Would if be more effective tied with a smooth body? I don’t know. Why don’t you try it both ways and let me know? |
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Step 7: Using turkey flats for wings is an easy process. Select the color you want, smooth the fibers and notch the center. Stroke the unwanted fibers back. Then fold the feather to double the fibers and tie in. |
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Step 8: You could tie the wing in lying over the tail, then stand it up, or as I usually do, tie it in with the wing over the hook eye. Then trim the butts and stand the wing up with thread wraps. |
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Step 9: Here the the wing is mounted. In a traditional Thorax pattern the wing is further back, over the midpoint of the shank. With a biot body instead of a dubbed body, I prefer the wing in this position. |
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Step 10: Tie in your hackle feather. This is dun rooster saddle. |
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Step 11: Wrap the hackle. |
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Step 12: Trim the hackle flush with the hookpoint, or slightly shorter as I do. Now it is ready to go fishing. |
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