Bodkin / Patterns

General Practitioner

Salmon/Steelhead · Steelhead · Salmon · Intermediate · 1 version

Classic Recipe

  • Hook Salmon double or single, 2-6
  • Thread Hot orange 6/0

Materials

  • Tail Orange golden pheasant body feather (tent, long)
  • Body Hot orange dubbing or floss (full)
  • Rib Gold oval tinsel (spiral)
  • Body hackle Orange golden pheasant body feather (palmered)
  • Wing Orange golden pheasant body feather (tent, over body)
  • Hackle Orange golden pheasant body feather (collar)

How to tie it

  1. Mount hook, tie in long tent tail
  2. Wrap body, add rib
  3. Palmer body hackle
  4. Tie in tent wing
  5. Wrap collar hackle
  6. Whip finish

Tying videos

← All fly patterns