{{+1}}Hares ear booby{{-1}}

This is a nifty little fly that merges the hares ear nymph and the traditional booby both very high pedigree flies into one very useful loch fly. It also has a bit of flash about it which helps the fly fill an important role in my fly box for an attractor fly to use on my middle dropper when I loch style fish fish just before, through and after the trout spawning season.

Materials

Hook	Eyes	Thread	Tail	Rib	Body
Knapek wet #10 to #14	Closed cell foam booby eyes	Black	Brown or ginger hackle fibres	Green holographic tinsel	Hares ear dubbing

Process

A	Wind the thread in firm touching turns from behind the eye of the hook halfway down the shank of the hook and then about half way back to the eye of the hook. Understanding hooks The easiest way to tie foam booby eyes in is to take a couple of hitches around the booby eye cylinder making sure that either side of the thread there is enough cylinder to be trimmed down to represent booby eyes. Then gently put pressure on the thread pulling the foam under the thread tight.	<

B	Now wind the thread loaded with the eyes round the hook shank until the booby eyes are located on top of the hook shank and just clear of the eye of the hook. Take a couple of figure of eight wraps to permanently lock the eyes in that position. With a a sharp pare of scissors trim both sides of the booby eye cylinder so that each unshaped eye is about as wide as the diameter of the closed cell foam. Continue with the scissors triming each eye into a basis ball shape. Wind it the thread in touching turns to the bend of the hook.

C	Tie in a hackel fiber tail in the same way you would tie in a tail on a nymph. The finished tail should be about as long as the hook shank Tie your holographic tinsel in at the bend of the hook.

D	Load your thread with hares ear dubbing and dub a body along the fly increasing in diameter as you move up the hook shank. Still with a little dubbing on your thread do a final figure of eight wrap around the eyes to cover the thread that you used to tie in the eyes and leave you thread in front of the eyes and behind the eye of the hook.

E	Pick up the holographic tinsel and wind it forward forming 4 or 5 segments along the body. Take the holographic tinsel forward between the eyes and tie it off behind the eye of the hook. Trim the excess holographic tinsel. Whip finish behind the eye of the hook. Half hitches and multiple hitches Using a bit of Velcro tease out the hares ear dubbing along the length of the body.