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Cains River Roaring Rapids

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Tyer Recipe

  • Hook Streamer hook, 3X to 6X long, #6-10 (tied here on a #6)
  • Thread Black 8/0 (70 denier)

Materials

  • Barred wood duck flank fibers Natural barred wood duck flank (Four or five fibers for the tail)
  • Mylar tinsel, medium (#14) Silver oval tinsel (One length for the body)
  • Saddle hackle Red saddle hackle fibers (Two feathers, inside pair of the wing)
  • Saddle hackle Yellow saddle hackle (Two feathers, outside pair of the wing)
  • Jungle cock eyes Natural jungle cock (One pair for the cheeks)
  • Saddle hackle Kingfisher blue (One feather for the collar)
  • UV resin or head cement Clear uv resin (For the head, plus a smear under the tinsel body)

How to tie it

  1. Mount a #6 3X long streamer hook and lay a black thread base back almost to the bend.
  2. Tie in four or five barred wood duck fibres on top as a short tail with both black bars showing; leave the butts bound down and run a small bead of head cement over the underbody to help hold the tinsel.
  3. Tie in medium mylar tinsel gold side up, bind it back to the base of the tail, then wrap it forward in slightly overlapping turns under good tension, stopping one or two eye-lengths behind the eye; lock it with a wrap behind, one in front and one behind before trimming.
  4. Build the wing in two pairs: two red saddle hackles on the inside and two yellow on the outside, tips even, measured to run well past the tail. Selecting and aligning the four feathers is by far the hardest part of the fly.
  5. Hold the assembled wing tight in your material hand and strip a good length of fibres off the butts so the head won't be a mess, then tie the wing in well back from the eye to leave room for the collar.
  6. If the feathers splay, take a wrap underneath the wing to prop it up, then trim the butts.
  7. Tie a jungle cock eye flat on each side as a cheek, angled up along the line of the wing, with both the yellow and white nails showing; trim the butts. On this pattern the eyes go on before the hackle, not last.
  8. Tie in a kingfisher blue saddle hackle by the tip, fold the tag back to lock it, trim, and wind five or six turns as a front collar, preening the fibres back as you go.
  9. Clean up any stray fibres, build a medium streamer head, whip finish with four or five turns, and coat it with quick-dry UV resin or head cement.

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