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Gartside Pheasant Hopper

Terrestrial · Dry Fly · Trout · Smallmouth Bass · Largemouth Bass · Panfish · Intermediate · 2 versions

Note: This recipe has not been verified against a documented source, or disagrees with one. Treat the materials and steps as unconfirmed.

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  • Hook Daiichi 2460 (Or your favorite 2x-3x long light wire streamer hook, 6

Materials

  • Tail Moose body hair
  • Body Super Fine Dubbing
  • Hackle Barred Dark Ginger hackle
  • Under Wing Golden pheasant tippet
  • Wing Ringneck Pheasant
  • Head Light Natural or Dark Bleached Deer Hair

How to tie it

  1. Start thread at the bend and dub or wind a slim yellow body forward to about the 70% point.
  2. If ribbing, palmer a brown hackle over the body and trim it close top and bottom, leaving short leg stubble on the sides.
  3. Select a mottled ringneck pheasant church-window body feather, coat it with flexible cement or head cement and let it set, then trim it to a rounded wing shape.
  4. Tie the lacquered feather in flat over the body as a tent-style wing, extending just past the bend.
  5. Spin a small clump of natural deer hair in front of the wing; whip finish behind the eye first if needed.
  6. Trim the spun deer hair to a small squared head, leaving a few tips swept back as a collar over the wing.
  7. Whip finish at the eye and add a drop of cement.

Other versions

1 more in the app: House-style construction (unverified).

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