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Published Sep 1. 2015 - 8 years ago
Updated or edited Dec 16. 2016
Twospotted Fair Fly
Originator:
Martin Joergensen
Pattern type:
Cold saltwater fly
Skill level/difficulty:
Medium
Instruction:
- Start the tying thread a bit behind the hook eye. You need space for the hair hackle and eyes in front of this point.
- Tie in the ribbing under the hook shank.
- Cover it with tying thread all the way to the hook bend. Open turns are OK
- Dub the body with an even, slightly conical, layer of dubbing up to the tie starting point
- Prepare a strip of rabbit by removing the fur from the tip 2 millimetres
- Tie in the strip
- Pull the strip to the rear, separate the fur right over the hook bend where the rib protrudes
- Take one tight turn of rib over the strip and under the hook to secure the rabbit
- Continue ribbing forwards in about five open turns
- Make sure you open the fur and turn the ribbing tightly over the skin itself
- Tighten the rib on the upwards move of the turn to avoid having the skin strip curl or rotate
- Tie down the rib and trim it
- Tie in the eyes on the underside of the hook shank just behind the hook eye
- Make sure there is room for a hair hackle between eyes and body
- Secure the eyes with figure-of-eight turns and maybe a drop of varnish or instant glue
- Take the thread back to right in front of the body
- Make a large loop for the hair hackle and mount a dubbing spinner in the loop
- Cut the hair off 1-2 centimetres or ¾ inch of the rabbit strip
- Mount the hair in the dubbing loop. A bit of hard dubbing wax can aide this step
- Make sure the hair is trapped by the base and trim the stubs if needed
- Spin the loop to form a hair hackle
- Stroke the hairs back and take two or three turns in front of the body, but behind the eyes
- Tie down the hackle and trim the remains
- Dub the thread sparsely and cover the base of the eyes with dubbing
- Whip finish and varnish in front of the eyes
Species:
Materials:
Hook | Kamasan B800, size2 |
Thread | Tan 6/0 |
Rib | Medium oval silver tinsel |
Body | Tan Scintilla or similar dubbing |
Wing/tail | Light brown rabbit zonker strip |
Eyes | Bead chain eyes |
Hackle | Hair hackle made from rabbit hair from zonker strip |
Head | Dubbed rabbit hair from zonker strip |
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