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Fripple Drake

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 2 versions

Note: Contested against a published dressing: The published Fripple in drake size is a Klinkhamer-hook emerger with an Evazote FOAM body, holographic tinsel rib, Medallion Sheeting wing with a deer-hair overwing, and no parachute hackle — the design point is the butt slicing into the film. Our record instead describes a conventional… Source: Fly Fish Food — "Green Drake Fripple" tying tutorial — https://www.flyfishfood.com/blogs/dry-fly-tutorials/drakes-fripple-style

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Standard dry/emerger, down eye, #10-#14
  • Thread Olive 8/0

Materials

  • Shuck Amber/olive material (few Antron fibers)
  • Body Olive-green material (fine dubbing)
  • Rib Yellow mcflylon (fine thread or wire (optional))
  • Wing/Post Gray or white braid (poly yarn, upright)
  • Thorax Dark olive material (dubbing)
  • Hackle Grizzly dyed olive hackle (1, parachute)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook and start thread mid-shank.
  2. Tie in a sparse amber-olive shuck at the bend, half a shank long.
  3. Dub a robust olive-green abdomen forward to the 60% mark, ribbing with a strand of yellow if desired.
  4. Post an upright gray poly wing at the 60% mark and stand it up with a few base turns.
  5. Tie in a grizzly-olive hackle at the post, dub a stout dark thorax, then wind the hackle parachute-style in 4-5 turns.
  6. Tie off against the post, whip finish, and trim the post to a stub.

Other versions

1 more in the app: Fly Fish Food Tie.

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