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Brown Drake Paradrake

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Standard dry fly hook, 10-12
  • Thread Brown 8/0

Materials

  • Extended body Yellowish-brown (deer hair, tied as a hollow extended body)
  • Tail Natural case (3 deer hair fiber tips from the body)
  • Post Yellow or white material (calf body hair or poly)
  • Hackle Grizzly + brown hackle (2 dry hackles, parachute)
  • Thorax Brown drake (fine dry-fly dubbing)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook and start thread, then take a clump of yellowish-brown deer hair and bind it to form a hollow extended body reaching one shank length past the bend, ribbing it with thread to segment.
  2. Leave three deer hair tips at the rear as a split tail.
  3. Stand a yellow calf-hair or poly post upright at the 60% mark and anchor its base.
  4. Tie in a grizzly and a brown hackle against the post.
  5. Dub a brown-drake thorax around the post base.
  6. Wind both hackles parachute-style around the post in 5-6 turns and tie off under the post.
  7. Whip finish at the eye and add a tiny drop of cement to the post base.

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