Hackle Stacker Emerger step by step.
Mount a grub hook of your choice in the vise:
Catch on your tying thread, wind under body to where you want the body to end and return the thread to where the thorax will start. All in touching turns:
Dub you body working from the thorax backwards:
Rib the body with the tying thread in open turns:
For the rest of this fly I changed the tying thread to a white thread, this is not a necessary step:
Catch in Polypropylene wing post and wing material tying in along full length of the thorax:
Post the wing material with tying thread as you would with a klinkhammer. Check the post length against the thorax, you want it to be just short of the hook eye:
Catch in your hackle at base of post, note feather has barbules at the base of the wing post:
Dub the thorax, I worked forward then back to finish with the thread back at the base of the wing post. You could just dub back from the eye of the hook:
Wind the hackle up the posted section of the wing in open turns and then back down to the base of the post in open turns. Keeping the spacing of the turns as even as possible:
Tie off the hackle at the base of the wing post as you would a parachute hackle. I use three turn the catch the hackle in and a three turn whip finish to secure:
Apply some more of the thorax dubbing to the thread at take the thread to the front of the thorax ready to catch in the wing:
Now pull the wing forward, the extent of the hackle should reach the end of the thorax, and catch in with the tying thread:
From the head of the fly at the same time using the thread to push the unposted wing into a vertical position. Whip finish and cut the tying thread:
Trim the wing to length, colour the head of the fly with marker pen (if required) and varnish:
