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Dark Bloa

Wet Fly · Trout · Grayling · Beginner · 1 version

Classic Recipe

  • Hook Standard wet fly / spider hook, 14-16
  • Thread Dark claret (Pearsall's Gossamer) 8/0

Materials

  • Silk Dark claret Pearsall's Gossamer, waxed (full body)
  • Body The waxed dark claret silk (shank)
  • Hackle Feather from a starling's quill (starling wing covert) (1 turn)

How to tie it

  1. Run the dark claret silk from behind the eye to above the barb and back to the two-thirds mark; the claret silk is the body.
  2. Tie in a soft grey starling covert by the tip at the two-thirds mark.
  3. Take one sparse turn of hackle and lock it with two turns of silk.
  4. Stroke the fibres back, build a small head, whip finish and varnish.

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