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Hackle Stacker Dun Bachmann's

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Standard dry-fly hook, 12-16
  • Thread Gray 8/0

Materials

  • Tail Dun microfibetts (few Microfibbets, split)
  • Body Gray dun material (turkey biot or fine dubbing)
  • Hackle post Clear hackle (monofilament loop)
  • Hackle Medium dun hackle (1 dry-fly hackle)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook and run thread back to the bend.
  2. Tie in and split a sparse dun Microfibbet tail about one shank long.
  3. Build a slim gray-dun biot or dubbed body forward to the 70% mark.
  4. Tie in a standing monofilament loop as a post and add a dun hackle at its base.
  5. Wind the hackle up and back down the mono post to stack the fibers, then trap the tip.
  6. Fold the mono loop forward so the stacked hackle lays flat over the thorax and bind it at the eye.
  7. Snip the mono, form a small head, and whip finish so the fly sits flush in the film.

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