These little midges are easy to tie and appeal in a a whole range of situations. I like to fish them on a dry line with a longer leader either in a team of flies either static fishing or retrieving or as a single fly on a long leader to cover rising fish. They also work well as a river fly fished behind a heavier nymph.
Materials
| Hook |
Thread |
Rib |
Wing case |
Thorax |
| Hanak grub hook size #10 or #12 |
Black shiny ultra thread |
Black rod binding thread |
Holographic tinsel |
UV dubbing |
Process
| A |
- Wind the thread a third of the way down the hook shank and tie in the ribbing material.
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| B |
- Wind the thread over the butt end of the ribbing thread and then down toward the bend of the hook. This gives an extra 2 layers of thread on the front third of the fly.
- To ensure a neat body hold the ribbing material on top of the hook shank as you wind the thread back down the hook to half way round the bend of the hook.
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| C |
- Wind the thread 3/4 of the way forward along the hook shank in close touching turn to form a thin body.
- Wind the ribbing material forward in equally spaced turns of the ribbing material to just in front of the 3/4 position to form a series of body segments on the fly.
- Tie the ribbing material off and trim the excess.
- Take the thread back to the 3/4 position.
- At the 3/4 position tie in a length of holographic tinsel on top of the hook shank.
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| D |
- Using the singly strand method of dubbing load the thread with UV dubbing.
- Build up a thorax of dubbing which is just a bit thicker in diameter than the body.
- Pull the wing casing holographic tinsel over the top of the fly and tie it off behind the eye of the hook.
- Trim the excess tinsel.
- Build up a neat head
- Whip finish and varnish the head.
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March 14, 2011 | 
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