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Cataloochee Copperhead

Nymph · Trout · Intermediate · 2 versions

Savage Flies dressing

  • Hook standard dry fly, 12-16
  • Thread Black

Materials

  • Wings Light ginger hackle tips
  • Tail Ginger hackle fibers
  • Body Stripped hackle quill
  • Hackle Ginger or light brown dry fly hackle

How to tie it

  1. Mount a #12 standard barbless dry fly hook, start black thread (70 denier) and lay a base over the front third, leaving the thread at the wing position.
  2. Take a matched pair of Light ginger hackle tips with the bare stems stripped, catch them in on the stems with two or three wraps and snip the excess.
  3. Stand the wings up a little longer than the hackle will be, propping them perpendicular with wraps tight under the base, then separate them with two figure-8 wraps.
  4. Take the thread to the bend and tie in about 15 stiff Ginger hackle fibers as a tail one body-length long, Catskill style. Cut the butts at an angle, bind them down and add extra wraps to smooth the underbody.
  5. Tie in the Stripped hackle quill at the rear and wrap it forward in touching turns to the front of the body where the hackle will start; catch off with two or three tight wraps and snip.
  6. Put one drop of UV resin on the quill body, spread it up, down and around with a bodkin without touching the wings, and cure for 10 to 15 seconds.
  7. Tie in a Ginger or light brown dry fly hackle sized to the hook with two or three wraps behind and a couple in front; snip the butt. Wrap three turns behind the wings and three or four in front, using the wraps to realign the wings if they lean; catch off with a couple of turns.
  8. Pull any forward fibers back, take a few turns over them and ramp the thread back no more than an eye-width, then whip finish with four turns and trim strays.

Other versions

1 more in the app: Tyer Recipe.

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