Hook: Dohiku HDN 302 size 16
Bead: 2mm Copper coated Tungsten
Thread: Orvis Light Olive 8/0 used as no 12/0
Tail: Olive Mallard Flank Feather
Wire: Lagartun Extra Fine Copper
Body: Chartreuse Peacock Herl
Thorax Cover: Olive Mallard Flank Feather
Thorax: Grey Squirrel
1) Materials Req’d
2) Slide the bead onto hook and secure with tying thread.
3) Select 4-5 fibres on the Mallard feather and tie in. Continue down to just before the bend of the hook keeping the turns close.
4) Trim fibres at head and return thread to head of the fly in open turns.
5) Tie in copper wire.
6) Select a fibre from the eye of the peacock feather.
7) Remove fluff from stem – here I’ve used a rubber (eraser for some viewers).
8) Tie in stem by thinner end and curved edge facing upwards.
9) Tie both down to tail using touching turns.
10) Wind stripped peacock stem up to eye in nice close turns. Trim excess.
11) Counter wind the wire up to the head using sufficient turns to protect the fragile peacock stem.Tie off and fret the wire to remove waste (twist the tag end of wire until it breaks).
