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Hackle Stacker Quigley BWO

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Classic Recipe

  • Hook Standard dry-fly hook (Tiemco 100 or Daiichi 1180), #16-20
  • Thread Olive dun 8-0 (14-18) / 16-0 for #20

Materials

  • Tail Light/medium dun Microfibbetts (2, split) (2 fibers)
  • Abdomen Olive-gray marabou barbs, or olive turkey biot (few barbs / 1 biot)
  • Hackle post Monofilament tippet (4-5X) (1 short length)
  • Hackle Medium dun rooster hackle (1 feather)
  • Thorax Superfine dubbing, BWO olive / olive-gray (pinch)

How to tie it

  1. Start the olive dun thread mid-shank and wrap a base to the bend.
  2. Tie in two dun Microfibbetts split into a V tail about one shank length long.
  3. For the abdomen, tie in a few olive-gray marabou barbs at the bend, twist to a rope and wrap forward to the 60% point (or wrap a single olive turkey biot forward for a segmented look).
  4. Tie in a short mono loop at the 60% point as an upright post; lock with three wraps, then a second loop locked down for a firm post.
  5. Tie in the medium dun hackle at the base of the post.
  6. Dub a fatter thorax of olive-gray Superfine from the post forward to behind the eye.
  7. Wind the hackle up the mono post 4-6 turns, fold the mono loop forward over the top of the hackle and tie off behind the eye so the fibers splay over the thorax like a parachute.
  8. Trim tags, form a small head and whip finish.

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