Poly yarn (white Mac yarn) White poly yarn (1 small clump (wing))
CDC feather Light dun cdc feather (1 small feather with a thin stem (soft-hackle collar))
How to tie it
Start fire orange thread about two eye-lengths back and make a thread base to the bend, so the thread hangs even with the hook point.
Even the tips of four or five ringneck pheasant tail fibers and tie them in at the bend for a tail about half a shank long, maybe a touch longer; wrap forward over the butts back to the starting point.
Cut one end of 10-12 strands of olive brown Zelon square, catch it at the front, pull it to length, and wrap back over it keeping it on top of the shank all the way to the base of the tail. Lift the Zelon, cut it at an angle and rag the ends up so the shuck is short and irregular, not square cut.
With the thread at the bend, lay in extra-small copper wire so the stub end reaches the front of the thread base, and wrap forward over it along the near side; then return the thread to the bend.
Take four or five more pheasant tail fibers and cut the TIPS square; pull them down to the length of the thread base and wrap forward over the tip ends, no taper needed.
Wrap the pheasant tail fibers forward together in four or five turns to form the abdomen, ending at the front of the thread base, and tie off.
Counter-wrap the copper wire forward in evenly spaced turns to reinforce the abdomen, break the wire out, and clip the pheasant tail excess.
Tear off a small pinch of UV shrimp pink ice dub (tearing finer fibers off makes it dub better), spin a small tight noodle, and build a thorax noticeably fatter than the abdomen.
Make a thread base up to the eye and back, then tie in a clump of white poly yarn with a pinch wrap directly in front of the dubbing on top of the shank; trim the butt at an angle to taper it. Cut the wing to length, about the middle of the abdomen, turning your scissors so the cut is perpendicular to the fibers.
Prep a small light dun CDC feather: separate the tip, strip the lower fibers off leaving a little fluff, tie it in inside-toward-the-hook with three or four turns, fold the tip back, catch it again and bump the thread forward, then trim the tip out.
Wrap the CDC like a soft hackle, wet your fingers and comb the fibers back as you go, keeping the stem on the leading edge of each turn. For two or three turns, tie off tight and nip the excess.
Cover the stub with a few turns of thread, leaving a prominent fire orange head, and whip finish.