Green Peter – daddy variant

 

As many of you will be aware there is a Welsh fly called a "Green Peter". It was designed as a dry fly but is also a great Loch Style  bob or middle dropper fly. I tie a version with legs and without legs. Sometimes the legs are just the trigger you need to elicit a strike regardless of if your fishing the fly as a dry, pulling it as a wet or have in you team of flies when loch style fly fishing.

Materials

 

Hook Thread Tail Rib Body Legs (optional) Wing Hackle
8 to 14 long shank (Tiemco 3769) Black Golden pheasant dies red Gold wire Green seals fur Rubber or silicon legs, stretch floss, knotted pheasant tail fibres etc. Church window hackle or bronze mallard fibres Ginger hen

Process

 

A
  1. Wind the thread in touching turns to the bend of the hook.
  2. Tie in a tail of around 10 Golden Pheasant tail fibres that have been died red.
  3. The finished tail should only be about 2/3 as long as the shank of the hook.
  4. Tie in a length of gold wire.

 

B
  1. Dub on a cigar shaped body.
  2. Wind the copper wire along the body forming 4 or five uniform segments on the body.
  3. Break the excess wire off.

 

C
  1. Using a piece of Velcro teas out the dubbing creating a bit of a halo around the body of the fly.

 

D
  1. Make up 2 sets of three Cock Pheasant tail fibres knotted to represent legs.
  2. Tie one each side of the front of the body to represent legs.

 

E
  1. Select a clump of the wing hackle fibres and tie them in on top of the fly. The tips of the wing should finish above and just behind the back of the hook.

 

F
  1. Tie in a hackle just behind the eye of the hook.
  2. Take several turns of the hackle between the body and the eye of the hook. The actual number of turns will depend on the thickness of the hen hackle fibres and if the fly is being tied "light" or "heavy".
  3. Pull the hackle fibres with the fingers of the left hand and lock them into place, so that they lay back along the fly at an angle of around 30 degrees, with a couple of turns of thread.
  4. Build up a neat head of thread.
  5. Whip finish the thread, trim the thread and varnish the head.

 



Last Updated: March 11, 2011
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