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Grizzly King

Wet Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 3 versions

Classic Recipe

• Hook Standard wet, 10-14
• Thread Black 8/0

Materials

• Tail Red duck slip (small)
• Body Green floss (smooth)
• Rib Flat gold (spiral)
• Wing Gray mallard flank (rolled)
• Hackle Grizzly hackle (beard or collar)

How to tie it

1. Mount the hook and lay a thread base to the bend.
2. Tie in a small red duck-quill slip as a tail, one shank length long, angled slightly up.
3. Catch in the flat gold tinsel, then a length of green floss; wrap the floss forward in smooth touching layers to build an even body stopping one eye-length behind the eye.
4. Spiral the flat gold tinsel forward in 5 evenly spaced turns as a rib, tie off and snip.
5. Tie in a grizzly hen hackle and take 2 turns as a wet collar, or strip fibres and set them as a beard below the shank.
6. Roll a slip of grey mallard flank into a wing, set it low over the body with tips to the bend, and bind it down.
7. Form a neat head, whip finish and varnish.

Other versions

2 more in the app: Classic Recipe (2), Gregg Dressing (1940).

Tying videos

• Grizzly King — Traditional Wet Fly Trout Patterns (YouTube)
• Grizzly King — Fly Tying for Beginners (YouTube)

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