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Green Drake Wulff

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook standard dry-fly hook, 10-12
  • Thread olive 8/0

Materials

  • Wings White calf (clump, upright and divided)
  • Tail Moose (stacked bunch)
  • Body Olive-green material (dubbing)
  • Hackle Grizzly and brown hackle (two, mixed)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook and run thread to the 70% mark.
  2. Tie in a clump of white calf hair standing upright at the 70% mark and split it into two wings with figure-8 wraps.
  3. Stack a bunch of moose fibers and bind them at the bend for a tail one shank length long.
  4. Dub a tapered olive-green body forward to the wing base.
  5. Tie in one grizzly and one brown hackle at the wing base.
  6. Wind both hackles together, a few turns behind and a few in front of the wings, and tie off.
  7. Whip finish behind the eye and cement.

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