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This fly is similar to a Craig's nightime but in my view has a wider day time application. The Craig's is highly respected as a night time fly when mudeyes are around whereas this fly works well in that situation but also more than holds its own during daylight hours during when either mudeyes or midge are around. Why it works when fish are on midge is any ones guess but it does.

The fly is tied without weight so that when soaked it will fish in the surface film. Probably the best tactic is to use a floating line with a leader that has been de-greased so that it will sit below the surface and to twitch the fly in over weed beds and other structure.

Materials

Process

A	Select a bunch of Marabou about as thick as a match stick and tie the bunch in along the top of the hook shank with the tips forming a tag about as long as the gape of the hook. Tag tails Tie in a length of fine silver wire along the top of the hook shank.

B	Bare the first 5 mm of a length of chenille and tie the bare core of the chenille in along the top of the hook shank with the chenille wadding tight up against the bend of the hook.

C	Wind the chenille forward to the 95% position in touching turns forming a uniform body. Tie the chenille off with a couple of firm turns of thread. Where the chenille sits at the 95% position I generally trim the top of the chenille so there is no ridge between the chenille and the hook shank. This will make it much easier to tie in the wing feathers.

D	Wind the fine silver wire forward forming 4 or 5 body segments. Body segments on flies Take a couple of extra wraps of wire in front of the body and worry the excess wire off. Tie a wing consisting of 2 or 3 blue swamp hen feathers with the tips extending around half way along and over the tag.

E	Tie in a hackle just behind the eye of the hook.

F	Take 2 or 3 turns of the hackle just behind where it is tied in. Take your thread back through the hackle and take a couple of firm turns of thread locking the hack butt in position. Take the thread back through the hackle to behind the eye of the hook. Trim the excess hackle with a blade. Stroke the hackle back with the fingers of your left had and whist holding them in place lock them down with a a couple of firm turns of thread. Build up a neat head of thread. Neat heads on flies Whip finish and varnish the head.

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