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Callibaetis Spinner Ak's

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

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

Materials

  • Tail Dun microfibetts (stiff hackle fibers, split)
  • Body Gray flotation (stripped/dyed grizzly quill)
  • Wings Grizzly hackle (hackle wound then clipped spent)
  • Thorax Gray flotation (dubbing)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook, start thread, and run to the bend.
  2. Tie in a split tail of stiff dun hackle fibers a full shank long, divided with a small dubbing ball.
  3. Tie in a stripped grizzly quill and wrap a clean, segmented gray abdomen to the 65% mark.
  4. At the thorax, tie in and wind a grizzly hackle 5-6 turns, then trim the top and bottom flush - AK Best's trick that leaves spent wings sticking straight out each side.
  5. Dub a slim gray thorax over the base, figure-8ing to splay the wings flat.
  6. Whip finish a small head.

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