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Clark's Stone

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook 2XL dry fly hook, 6-10
  • Thread Orange 3/0

Materials

  • Body Burnt orange (macrame poly yarn, singed at the tip)
  • Underbody flash Pearl flashabou (few strands Krystal Flash (optional))
  • Wing Natural case (deer or elk hair, unstacked)
  • Hackle Brown hackle (one feather, wrapped at head)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook and start orange thread; bind a length of burnt-orange macrame yarn along the shank so a stub extends one shank length past the bend as the body/tail.
  2. Singe the trailing tip of the yarn with a lighter and pinch it to a taper. The melted end won't wick water and keeps the fly floating.
  3. Return the thread to the 70% mark, building a smooth underbody over the bound-down yarn.
  4. Clean but do not stack a bundle of deer or elk hair; tie it in as a wing with the tips extending just past the end of the yarn body.
  5. Tie in a brown hackle and take three or four turns in front of the wing as a collar; tie off.
  6. Build a small head, whip finish, and snip.

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