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For a long time the Greenwells Glory was a fly that has been a staple in my dry fly box ... this fly has taken its place. It's essentially a hackled gold ribbed hares ear and has all the defining elements of a normal Greenwells Glory pattern except the primrose thread body of the original has been covered with a body of dubbed hares ear fur and the wing slip of starling or mallard primary feather has been dropped.

With those modifications on balance I think it fishes better all rounder fly than the Greenwells Glory.

It works equally well on running or still water and is a little more buoyant than the Greenwells Glory and is buoyant enough to support a small bead head nymph in a wet under dry team.

Materials

Process

A	Starting at the 95% position wind the thread to the bend of the hook. Understanding hooks

B	Tie in a tail of 6 to 8 furnace hackle barbules. The finished tail should be around as long as the shank of the hook. Tails on flies Finish with your thread at the 85% position.

C	Whilst winding the thread back down to the bend of the hook to form a thread under-body tie in a length of ribbing material along the top of the hook shank.

D	Lightly load the thread with hair that has been pinched off a relatively dark hares mask.

E	Wind the dubbing rope forward to the 75% position forming a cigar shaped body. Take a couple of half hitches of thread in front of the body just to make sure it's secure.

F	Wind the ribbing wire forward forming 4 or 5 segments along the body of the fly. Body segments on flies. Tie the ribbing off at the 75% position and trim away the excess.

G	Tie a hackle in barbules a little longer than the gape of the hook by the butt at the 75% position. Wet fly hackles. The top/shiny side of the hackle should be facing forward so that when the hackle is wound forward the barbules will have a natural tendency to slope back. If the hackle were tied in with the dull side facing forward the barbules would have a tendency to face forward.

H	Wind the hackle forward to just behind the eye of the hook. This generally takes up to 6 full turns of the hackle. Wind the thread forward through the turns of hackle to just behind the eye of the hook. Tie the hackle off with a couple of firm wraps of thread. Trim the excess hackle butt away with a sharp blade.

I	With thumb and forefinger stroke the hackle barbules back out of the way and without encroaching on the hackles build up a neat thread head. Build up a neat thread head. Neat thread heads. Whip finish the head of the fly, trim the thread and varnish the head of the fly.

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