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AKA: Divided hackle or hair tails

Spinners in particular are great examples of insects with long split wings.The temptation is of course to try to represent the wings as closely as possible but from experience I have found that is no a practical long term solution. Spinner tails are typically quite long and very fine and if you incorporate those characteristics in your flies you will find that the tails look very life like when you first tie your fly but once the fly has been in your fly box for a while the tails get damage and broken and the fly looks ugly. I think its better to compromise on the length of the tail and to add a couple of extra hackle fibres so that your fly will stand the test of time.

The spinner of course is that stage after the Dun has moved off the water after drying its wings. The adult or imago of all Mayflies, Caddis flies and Midges can technically be regarded as spinners however the name is generally used only in the context of referring to a small number of Mayflies including Black Spinners and Red Spinners when they are both on the water and in the air.

Process

A	Wind the thread to the bend of the hook. Tie in a loop of thread at the bend of the hook in much the same way as you would tie in a dubbing loop.

B	Tie your hair your hackle tail material in as normal.

C	Pull both of the threads of the loop upward separating the tail so that there are equal numbers of hair or barbules on each side of the thread.

D	Tie both strand of the loop of thread off along the top of the hook shank. Trim any excess thread from the loop.

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