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Hi-Vis BWO

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Classic Recipe

  • Hook Standard dry-fly hook (Tiemco 100 / 100SP-BL or equivalent), 1X-fine wire, #16-22
  • Thread Olive dun 8/0 / 70D

Materials

  • Wing/Post White or fluorescent-pink poly yarn (Para Post / McFlylon) (1 short clump)
  • Tail Blue dun or medium dun hackle fibers (Whiting or Coq de Leon) (6-8 fibers)
  • Body Olive (BWO) Superfine dry-fly dubbing (pinch)
  • Hackle Blue dun or grizzly rooster hackle (1 feather)
  • Thorax Olive (BWO) Superfine dry-fly dubbing (pinch)

How to tie it

  1. Start the olive dun thread one eye-length back from the eye and lay a smooth base to the mid-point of the shank.
  2. Tie in a short clump of white poly yarn as a vertical parachute post at the 70% point (behind the eye). Post it upright with several thread wraps around its base so it stands as a hi-vis sighter.
  3. Return the thread to the bend and tie in 6-8 blue dun hackle fibers for a tail about one shank length long, splaying them slightly.
  4. Dub a thin, tapered abdomen of olive Superfine forward over the rear two-thirds of the shank, stopping at the post.
  5. Tie in the blue dun hackle by its stem at the base of the post, shiny side up.
  6. Dub a small olive thorax around and just in front of the post.
  7. Wind the hackle parachute-style around the base of the post, 3-5 turns from top down, then tie it off against the post and clip the tip. Whip finish under the hackle at the eye. The white post makes this low-riding Baetis emerger easy to track in riffles and glare.
  8. Add a drop of head cement to the whip finish, keeping it off the hackle.

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