Rooster saddle hackle Red saddle hackle fibers (One feather, one to one and a half turns, wet-fly style)
Teal flank feather (wing) Natural barred wood duck flank (A very sparse slip, to the hook point)
Krystal Flash Pearl flashabou (Two strands, doubled over the wing)
Head cement or resin Clear (Loon Hard Head) (A good coat on the head)
How to tie it
Lay a good base of red thread down the shank to the bend.
Pull a small piece of red saddle hackle fibers off perpendicular to the stem and tie in a very sparse tail about half the length of the shank; the whole fly is meant to be sparse.
Bring the thread back to about the hook point and tie in one strand of red straggle, oriented so the fibers lay backwards, binding it all the way down to the tail; return the thread to the hook point and wrap the straggle forward in touching turns to form the red butt. Tie off and clip.
Tie in the yellow sunburst straggle and wrap it forward in touching turns, stopping at least two eye-lengths short of the eye so there is room for the hackle and wing. Tie off and clip.
Select a slim red saddle hackle, measure it against the fly by pulling the fibers out from the point where it will be tied in, strip everything below that point, and tie it in wet-fly style with the shiny side facing you; fold the stem back and clip.
Sweep the hackle fibers between your fingers and take just one to one and a half turns; tie off and snip away the stem, then take a couple of thread wraps over the top of the hackle, parting the fibers on top where the wing will sit so the wing sits upright.
Pull a sparse slip of teal flank off the stem perpendicular and tie it in on top as the wing, reaching back to about the hook point; bring the thread right back against the hackle first, then bind it in and trim the butts.
Tie in two strands of pearl Krystal Flash on top of the wing, leaving the forward ends long; fold those forward ends back over the top and bind them down, then snip all the flash to about the length of the wing.
Spin the thread to flatten it, build a small neat head and whip finish.
Coat the head with Loon Hard Head, head cement or resin: coho teeth are hard on heads.