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Ginger Spinner

Dry Fly · Trout · Grayling · Intermediate · 1 version

Classic Recipe

• Hook Standard dry fly, fine wire, 14-16
• Thread Orange 8/0

Materials

• Tail Ginger cock hackle fibers (3 fibers)
• Body Stripped ginger quill or orange-ginger dubbing (slim)
• Hackle Ginger cock hackle (1)
• Wing (optional) Pale dun hackle points, spent (1 pair)

How to tie it

1. Tie in three long ginger tail fibers at the bend, spread wide.
2. Wrap a slim stripped-quill body up to the 70% mark. The bare quill gives the shiny, segmented look of a spent spinner's abdomen.
3. Optionally set pale hackle-point wings flat and spent.
4. Wind the ginger hackle 3-4 turns and clip a V beneath so the fly sits in the film.
5. Whip finish.

Tying videos

• Ginger Spinner — Fly Fishers International (YouTube)
• Ginger Spinner — Andy's Flies (YouTube)

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