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One of the things we try to do when we fly fish is "match the hatch" in form and function. Well if you put a burley trail of bread out have a look at a bits of bread floating around they really doesn't have any one single form - there just bits of bread. They do however have function in that they float in the water rather than on the water and they are off white rather than pure white. This fly matches the form of a piece of bread floating and has the added advantage of being highly visible so it can be used as an indicator if for example you want to fish a second weighted fly below.

Materials

Process

A	Wind the thread in touching turns from the 95% position to the bend of the hook. Understanding hooks Tie in an optional tail of hackle fibres about half as long as the hook . Tails on flies Wind the thread 3/4 of the way along the hook shank and take two or three tight wraps of thread locking a length of closed cell foam that is about as wide as the gape of the hook into that position.

B	Take loose wraps of thread as you take the thread to the bend of the hook. You don't want to squash the under-body down so much that it no longer provides any buoyancy. At the bend of the hook take two or three tight wraps of thread that lock the closed cell foam in at the bend of the hook. Closed cell foam bodies Form a dubbing loop and take the thread forward 3/4 of the way along the hook shank, again using loose wraps of thread so that you don't collapse the air pockets in the closed cell foam.

C	Load the dubbing loop with polar fibre. Dubbing loop method of dubbing

D	Twist the dubbing loop to form a dubbing loop rope.

E	Wind the dubbing rope toward the eye of the hook in touching turns stroking back the loose fibres at each wrap of the thread so that the next wrap of the thread doesn't tie any of the fibres down. Tie the dubbing loop off and trim the excess.

F	Trim the dubbing flat along the top of the hook shank.

G	Pull the closed cell foam over the top to form a back on the fly. Tie the closed cell foam off  at about the 95% position. Trim the foam off a little in front of the eye of the hook. Whip finish at the eye of the hook, trim the thread and varnish the whip finish.

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