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Callibaetis Quill Dun

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook standard dry, 14-16
  • Thread gray 8/0

Materials

  • Wing Dun microfibetts (poly yarn or hackle tips, upright)
  • Tail Dun microfibetts (microfibbets, split)
  • Body Gray mottled material (stripped peacock quill or turkey biot)
  • Thorax Gray flotation (dubbing)
  • Hackle Grizzly/dun hackle (4-5 turns)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook, start thread, and tie in an upright dun poly-yarn wing at the 65% mark, posting the base.
  2. Run to the bend, tie in two or three dun microfibbets, and split them into a forked tail over a small dubbing bump.
  3. Tie in a mottled stripped quill at the bend.
  4. Wrap the quill forward in touching turns to a segmented gray abdomen, stopping behind the wing, and lock it with a drop of head cement. Quill is fragile.
  5. Tie in a dun hackle at the wing.
  6. Dub a sparse thorax and wind 4-5 hackle turns as a collar around the wing.
  7. Whip finish a small head.

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