Bodkin / Patterns

Blue Wing Olive Wet Fly

Wet Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

• Hook Standard wet fly hook, 18-14
• Thread Olive 8/0

Materials

• Tail Blue dun material (Few hen fibers)
• Body Olive ostrich herl (Olive dubbing or floss)
• Hackle Blue dun hackle (1 soft hen feather)
• Wing Slate (Matched dun duck quill slips)

How to tie it

1. Mount the hook and start olive thread, winding to the barb.
2. Tie in a few blue dun hen fibers for a short tail.
3. Dub or wrap a slim olive body forward to the 70% mark.
4. Tie in a soft blue dun hen hackle by the tip, take 2 turns, then sweep the fibers back and down as a beard.
5. Set matched slate quill slips low over the body, tips curving down to the bend.
6. Build a small head, whip finish, and cement.

Tying videos

• Blue Wing Olive Wet Fly — Makflies (YouTube)
• Blue Wing Olive Wet Fly — The Fly Fiend (YouTube)
• Blue Wing Olive Wet Fly — Trident Fly Fishing (YouTube)

← All fly patterns