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Cluster

Dry Fly · Trout · Beginner · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Standard dry fly hook, 16-22
  • Thread Black 8/0

Materials

  • Body Peacock ice dub (one herl)
  • Hackle Grizzly hackle (one feather, palmered)
  • Post White uni stretch (poly yarn (optional, for visibility))

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook and start thread at the 70% mark; if you want a sighter, tie in a short white poly post here and stand it up.
  2. Tie in a grizzly hackle by the tip and a single strand of peacock herl at the bend.
  3. Wrap the peacock herl forward into a full, buggy body, stopping behind the eye.
  4. Palmer the grizzly hackle forward through the herl in five or six open turns to suggest a knot of tangled midges; tie off.
  5. Build a small head, whip finish, and snip. Trim any stray fibers only if it won't sit upright.

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