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The original Invicta was created by eminent English fly tier and tackle dealer James Ogden in the 1870's. With just a few tweaks this fly is as relevant today as it was 140 odd years ago. This is a great attractor fly at times when yellow winged hoppers and other insects with yellow body parts are around and yellow is a trigger color for trout.
Materials
| Hook |
Thread |
Tail |
Rib |
Body |
Hackle |
Beard |
Wing |
| Medium shank wet fly (Knapek lure) |
Black |
Yellow hackle fibres |
Silver holographic tinsel |
Yellow seals fur |
Brown |
Peacock breast feather blue hackle fibres |
Ring neck pheasant feather fibres or bronze mallard |
Process
| A |
- Wind the thread in touching turns to the bend of the hook.
- Tie in a tail of yellow hackle fibres about as long as the shank of the hook.
- Tie in a length of copper wire
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| B |
- Dub on a cigar shaped body.
- Tie in a hackle just behind the eye of the hook.
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| C |
- Palmer the hackle all the way to the bend of the hook.
- Whilst holding the hackle with your left hand wind the holographic tinsel forward locking the Palmered hackle in and creating 4 or 5 segments along the body of the fly.
- Cut the excess holographic tinsel off and trim the excess hackle off with a blade.
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| D |
- Select half a dozen or so peacock breast feather blue hackle fibres and tie them in as a beard with the hackle tips partially obscuring the tip of the hook.
- 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.
- Build up a neat head of thread.
- Whip finish the thread, trim the thread and varnish the head.
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Last Updated: March 11, 2011
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