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Jenny Spinner

Dry Fly · Trout · Grayling · Intermediate · 1 version

Classic Recipe

  • Hook Standard dry fly, fine wire, 16-18
  • Thread Crimson 8/0

Materials

  • Tail Pale blue dun or white cock fibers (3 fibers)
  • Body White floss or stripped white quill (1)
  • Head/tail bands Crimson tying thread (exposed)
  • Hackle Pale blue dun cock hackle (1)

How to tie it

  1. Start the crimson thread at the bend and leave a couple of visible turns. The natural jenny spinner has a red-brown tip to its abdomen, so let the silk show.
  2. Tie in three pale fibers as tails, a full shank length, spread wide.
  3. Wrap a slim white floss or stripped quill body over two-thirds of the shank, leaving the crimson thread showing at both ends.
  4. Expose a few turns of crimson at the thorax too, the white body with red ends is the whole point of the fly.
  5. Wind a pale blue dun hackle 3-4 turns and whip finish with a tiny head.

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