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McGinty

Wet Fly · Trout · Panfish · Steelhead · Intermediate · 4 versions

Classic Recipe

  • Hook Standard wet, 10-14
  • Thread Black 8/0

Materials

  • Tail Barred teal + red flank feather (mixed)
  • Body Black and yellow chenille, banded (bee stripes)
  • Wing White-tipped mallard secondary (slips)
  • Hackle Brown hackle (sparse)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook and lay a thread base to the bend.
  2. Tie in a mixed tail of barred teal fibres over a few red hackle fibres, half a shank long.
  3. Tie in black chenille and yellow chenille together at the bend, then wind them in alternating bands forward to build the striped bee body, ending one-third behind the eye.
  4. Tie in a brown hen hackle and take 2 turns as a sparse collar, or set it as a beard, sweeping down.
  5. Cut a matched pair of white-tipped mallard secondary slips and set a low wing over the body, tips to the bend, white tips showing.
  6. Build a neat head, whip finish and varnish.

Other versions

3 more in the app: Classic Recipe (2), Gregg Dressing (1940), Bucktail.

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