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Grey Bi-Visible

Dry Fly · Trout · Grayling · Beginner · 1 version

Gregg Dressing (1940)

  • Hook Standard dry-fly hook, 10-14
  • Thread Black 6/0-8/0 (waxed silk in the original)

Materials

  • Rib Silver or none
  • Hackle Grizzly hackle

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook and start waxed tying thread about one eye-length behind the eye; wind smooth touching turns down the shank to the bend.
  2. Tie in the ribbing (Silver or none) at the bend and let it hang for later.
  3. Counter-wrap the rib forward in four or five evenly spaced open turns over the body; tie off and trim or helicopter the end.
  4. Prepare a Grizzly hackle by stripping the soft web from the base; tie it in at the front of the body shiny-side forward and wind four or five close turns; tie off and trim the tip.
  5. Build a small, neat thread head to cover the wing and hackle butts, whip finish, and lacquer the head.

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