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Blue Devil streamer

Streamer · Advanced · 3 versions

As tied by Dressed Irons

  • Hook Partridge CS15, 4
  • Thread White, black, pumpkin Danville 210 White, Danville 70 Black, Uni 8/0 Pumpkin

Materials

  • Tag Danville Silver/Gold Mylar Tinsel, #10, Silver
  • Body Red or Black Floss
  • Rib Danville Silver/Gold Mylar Tinsel, #10, Silver
  • Underbelly Four to Six Peacock Herls, Bucktail, White
  • Throat Orange and then Blue Hackle
  • Wing Two Orange hackles flanked on each side by one slightly shorter Blue Hackle
  • Shoulder White & Brown Ruffed Grouse body feather
  • Cheek Jungle cock
  • Head Black with an Orange Band

How to tie it

  1. Debarb the hook and lay a base of white 210 thread, which will not darken the red floss when wet.
  2. Tie in the silver/gold mylar tinsel, gold side up so it flips to silver when wrapped, near the hook point, then return the thread to the tie-in.
  3. Tie in the red rayon floss, leaving a little protruding up the body to keep it smooth, and advance the thread to the end of the body.
  4. Wrap the floss body, then wrap the tinsel for the tag and the rib.
  5. Tie in the belly underneath: four to six peacock herl with tips fairly even, then white bucktail the same length; trim the excess and take two or three loose backward wraps to collect the flared hair.
  6. Attach the pumpkin 8/0 thread so the head can be built orange, and take it back to about where the bucktail was tied in.
  7. Tie in the throat: orange hackle on the bottom with blue hackle on top, halfway down the belly; then add another orange and blue pair a little further forward to cover thread wraps.
  8. Do the same on the other side, then clean up the head space with the orange thread.
  9. Tie in the wing: two orange hackles flanked on each side by a slightly shorter blue hackle, one side then the other, keeping them perpendicular.
  10. Shape the head, waxing the thread, and whip finish the orange.
  11. Divide the head space into thirds and add black 70 denier thread bands in the back third and front third, waxing the thread; whip finish, add head cement, then two coats of clear lacquer.

Other versions

2 more in the app: As tied by Davie McPhail (his variant), Barry Ord Clarke, The Feather Bender.

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