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Elden's Flavilinea Spinner

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Classic Recipe

  • Hook Standard dry-fly hook, 12-16
  • Thread Olive-brown 14/0

Materials

  • Tails Dun/grizzly Microfibbetts (split) (2-3 per side)
  • Abdomen Olive-brown Superfine dubbing or turkey biot (pinch/1)
  • Wings White/pale dun poly yarn or Zelon (spent) (small bunch)
  • Thorax Olive-brown Superfine dubbing (pinch)

How to tie it

  1. Start thread and tie in two or three Microfibbett tails to each side at the bend, split wide with a small dubbing ball or figure-eight wraps for a stable, flush float.
  2. Dub a slim, tapered olive-brown abdomen (Flav bodies run olive-brown) forward to the thorax.
  3. Tie in a bunch of pale poly/Zelon across the shank and figure-eight it into flat spent wings lying perpendicular to the body. The flush, spent silhouette is what a spinner-fall trout wants.
  4. Dub a slightly fuller thorax over the wing base to lock the wings flat.
  5. Whip finish behind the eye and add a tiny drop of cement; the finished fly should lie flush in the film.

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