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Golden Dun Midge

Midge · Trout · Grayling · Intermediate · 2 versions

Classic Recipe

• Hook Standard wet fly hook, small, 14-18
• Thread Grey / olive 8/0

Materials

• Tail Grey hackle fibres (short)
• Rib Fine gold tinsel (4-5 turns)
• Body Pale green floss (slim)
• Hackle Grey hen (sparse beard/collar)
• Wing Light slate quill slips (pair)

How to tie it

1. Start the thread and tie in a short grey tail at the bend.
2. Tie in fine gold tinsel, then wind a slim pale green floss body forward, stopping short of the eye.
3. Spiral the gold rib forward in 4-5 even turns and tie off.
4. Apply a sparse grey hen hackle as a beard (or a light collar).
5. Set a matched pair of light slate quill slips low over the body as the wing; build a small neat head, whip finish and varnish.

Other versions

1 more in the app: Gregg Dressing (1940).

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