Hook 2XL nymph or wet-fly hook, #10-14 (tied on a #14)
Thread Black 70 denier
Materials
Ringneck pheasant shoulder feather (tail and hackle) Golden brown hackle (One feather: 8-10 fibers for the tail and the rest of the feather for the collar)
Sow scud dubbing (body) Rainbow (or a homemade mix of green, pink and orange Ice Dub with blue acrylic yarn) (About a three inch noodle)
Wire rib Red wire (One length, small to medium (UTC))
Head cement Clear head cement (A drop)
How to tie it
Lay a base of black 70 denier thread from behind the eye all the way to the start of the bend.
Pull 8-10 fibers from a golden brown shoulder feather (just under and to the side of the church-window feathers) and tie them in as a short tail, about one hook-gape long. Save the feather; it becomes the hackle.
Snip the tail butts off at the front and bury them under thread as part of the underbody.
Tie in the red wire at the front and bind it back to the tail, then back the thread off a couple of turns.
Wax the thread and spin a fairly tight three inch noodle of rainbow sow scud dubbing (or your own Ice Dub mix), leaving a little bare thread to get back to the tail. Wrap the body forward, tightening the noodle as you go; pull a little dubbing off if you have too much toward the front.
Take one wrap of red wire at the back of the body and spiral it forward in evenly spaced open turns to lock the dubbing in; catch it off at the front with two or three wraps, pull it down tight and helicopter it off, then cover any sharp point with a few loose thread wraps.
Take the same shoulder feather, grab it by the tip, create your tie-in point and catch it in with a couple of wraps, then fold it back over and add a couple more securing wraps. Snip the tip excess.
Take exactly two wraps of hackle: any more and you'll end up with an all-hackle fly. Snip the stem as close as you can.
Hold the hackle back and take a good number of thread wraps to lay the fibers hard back over the body, sweeping them all the way to the tips of the tail.
Build a deliberately big head, whip finish with four or five turns, poke the scissors through perpendicular to trim the tag, and finish with a drop of head cement for a nice glossy head.