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Blue Wing

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 2 versions

Reference Recipe

• Hook Standard dry fly hook, 18-16
• Thread Olive 8/0

Materials

• Tail Blue dun material (Few hackle fibers)
• Body Olive ostrich herl (Olive dry-fly dubbing)
• Wing Dun microfibetts (Slate poly or hackle-tip)
• Hackle Blue dun hackle (1 dry-fly feather)

How to tie it

1. Mount the hook and start olive thread at the 75% mark.
2. Tie in an upright dun poly or hackle-tip wing and post it with a few thread turns around the base.
3. Wind to the barb and tie in a few blue dun fibers for a tail one shank length long.
4. Dub a slim olive body forward from the tail to just behind the wing.
5. Tie in a blue dun hackle and take 4-5 turns split fore and aft of the wing for a balanced float.
6. Whip finish behind the eye and add a tiny drop of cement at the wing base.

Other versions

1 more in the app: Fly Fish Food Tie.

Tying videos

• Blue Wing — Savage Flies (YouTube)
• Blue Wing — Davie McPhail (YouTube)
• Blue Wing — Davie McPhail (YouTube)
• Blue Wing — Fly Fish Food (YouTube)
• Blue Wing — Fly Fish Food (Fly Fish Food (tutorial))

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