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Crackleback

Dry Fly · Trout · Panfish · Beginner · 2 versions

Classic Recipe

• Hook Standard dry fly, 12-16
• Thread Yellow 6/0

Materials

• Body Pale yellow floss or dubbing (slim)
• Shellback Peacock herl (pulled over top)
• Hackle Furnace, palmered (full length)

How to tie it

1. Tie in peacock at bend
2. Wrap yellow body
3. Pull peacock over top as shellback
4. Palmer furnace hackle through
5. Whip finish

Other versions

1 more in the app: Beadhead.

Tying videos

• Crackleback — Tim Flagler (Tightline Productions) (Orvis News)
• Crackleback — Barry Ord Clarke (The Feather Bender)
• Crackleback — Dressed Irons (Dressed Irons)
• Crackleback — tiesflies (YouTube)

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