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Film Critic Quigley

Dry Fly · Emerger · Trout · Advanced · 1 version

Classic Recipe

  • Hook curved emerger hook (TMC 2487), 14-18
  • Thread dark brown 18/0 18/0 (Nanosilk)

Materials

  • Tail (fibers) Wood-duck / gold mallard flank (few fibers)
  • Shuck Copper or brown Antron yarn (small tuft)
  • Rib Fine copper wire (6 in)
  • Abdomen Gray-olive Superfine dubbing (or PT for the abdomen) (pinch)
  • Wing Dun poly yarn (1 clump)
  • Hackle Blue dun rooster (1 feather)
  • Thorax Gray-olive Superfine dubbing (pinch)

How to tie it

  1. Start thread and tie in a trailing shuck of copper Antron plus a few wood-duck fibers at the bend to imitate the nymphal skin the emerger is escaping.
  2. Tie in the copper wire, then dub (or wrap pheasant tail for) a slim abdomen forward two-thirds of the shank.
  3. Counter-rib with the copper wire in 4-5 turns and tie off.
  4. Tie in an upright, slightly forward-leaning wing of dun poly yarn at the front of the abdomen - Quigley's signature emerger wing that keeps the abdomen hanging down in the film.
  5. Tie in a blue dun hackle at the wing base.
  6. Dub a gray-olive thorax around and in front of the wing.
  7. Take 3-4 turns of hackle through the thorax, tie off, whip finish, and cement. Trim hackle flush on the bottom so the fly sits low.

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