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Klinkhamer

Dry Fly · Emerger · Trout · Grayling · Intermediate · 2 versions

Classic Recipe

  • Hook Curved/emerger hook, 12-18
  • Thread Olive or tan 8/0

Materials

  • Post White polypropylene (visible)
  • Hackle Grizzly hackle (1 feather)
  • Thorax Peacock herl (2-3 strands)
  • Body Dubbing to match hatch (slender)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the curved hook, start thread at the 70% mark.
  2. Tie in a generous poly yarn post and stand it upright with a thread dam, then wrap up the post base 8-10 turns.
  3. Dub a slender body from well down the curved bend up to the post, the deep body on the curve is the abdomen that will hang below the film.
  4. Tie in a grizzly hackle at the post base, shiny side up.
  5. Twist 2-3 peacock herls and wrap the thorax around the post base.
  6. Wrap the hackle parachute-style around the post, 4-5 turns, each below the last. Tie off beneath the hackle.
  7. Whip finish. On the water, the abdomen hangs down through the film while the post and hackle float above. Check the sit in a glass of water.

Substitutions

  • Post instead of White polypropylene: White Aero Dry Wing — Very visible, floats great; Hi-vis orange poly yarn — Easier to track on water; McFlylon — Fine fibers, good flotation
  • Thorax instead of Peacock herl: Peacock Ice Dub — More durable; Dark olive dubbing — Simpler, still effective
  • Body instead of Dubbing to match hatch: Olive Superfine — BWO emerger; Tan Superfine — Caddis emerger; Gray Superfine — General mayfly

Other versions

1 more in the app: Klinkkhamer Special.

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