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Golden Dun

Wet Fly · Trout · Grayling · Beginner · 2 versions

Classic Recipe

  • Hook standard dry/wet fly, 14-16
  • Thread yellow (waxed) 8/0

Materials

  • Body Yellow mohair mixed with a little pale blue mouse fur on waxed yellow silk (full shank)
  • Rib Yellow silk (optional) (4 turns)
  • Wing Palest part of a young starling's quill (upright), or omitted for the buzz version (matched pair)
  • Hackle Grouse feather (for the hackled 'buzz' version) or blue dun (1-2 turns)
  • Head Yellow mcflylon (small)

How to tie it

  1. Wax yellow silk and dub a slim body of yellow mohair blended with a touch of pale blue mouse fur, ribbing with yellow silk if you want extra segmentation.
  2. For the winged dressing, set upright wings from the lightest part of a young starling quill; for the 'buzz' (hackled) dressing, omit the wings.
  3. Wind a grouse feather (buzz version) or blue dun hackle as a sparse collar behind the eye.
  4. Whip finish a small yellow head and cement.

Other versions

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

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