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Henry's Fork Yellow Sally

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Classic Recipe

  • Hook 2XL dry-fly hook, Daiichi 1280 (or TMC 5212), #14-16
  • Thread Pale yellow / primrose 8/0

Materials

  • Egg sac (optional) Fluorescent orange or red dubbing (tiny pinch)
  • Body Wapsi Super Fine dubbing, PMD (pale yellow) (pinch)
  • Wing Bleached elk hair (small clump)
  • Thorax Wapsi Super Fine dubbing, PMD (pale yellow) (pinch)
  • Hackle Barred medium ginger (or light dun) hackle (1 feather)

How to tie it

  1. Optional: dub a tiny fluorescent-orange egg sac right at the bend to imitate the egg-laying female.
  2. Dub a slim pale-yellow body forward over the rear two-thirds of the shank.
  3. Clean and stack a small clump of bleached elk hair; tie it in as a low downwing with the tips reaching to the bend (one shank length), butts trimmed at an angle.
  4. Dub a small PMD thorax bump over the wing butts.
  5. Tie in the barred ginger hackle and wind just 2-3 sparse turns through the thorax - Lawson tied this one lightly hackled so it sits low in slow water, then tie off and whip finish at the eye.

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