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Dark Moor-Game

Wet Fly · Trout · Beginner · 1 version

Classic Recipe

• Hook wet fly / spider hook, down-eye, 14
• Thread orange 8/0

Materials

• Silk body Orange silk (full length of shank)
• Head Peacock herl (optional) (1 strand)
• Hackle Black-and-orange marked feather from a hen red grouse (1 feather)

How to tie it

1. Run the orange silk from behind the eye to above the barb, then forward two-thirds. Let the orange glow through.
2. Wind a slim orange body over the rear two-thirds of the shank.
3. Optionally tie in a strand of peacock herl and make two turns for a small dark head.
4. Tie in the black-and-orange hen grouse feather by its tip behind the eye.
5. Take 1.5 to 2 sparse turns of hackle, secure, clip the stem, stroke fibres back, whip finish and varnish.

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