Hook Curved-shank dry fly / stimulator hook (a standard dry fly hook also works); tied here in a #10, #6-10
Thread Red 70 denier
Materials
Golden pheasant tippets Natural barred orange/black golden pheasant tippets (About 10 fibers, tips aligned)
Wire rib, small Gold, brass or copper wire rib small (One strand)
Floss (orange poly yarn substitutes well) Orange floss (One strand, wrapped down and back)
Grizzly hackle, palmered Grizzly hackle (One feather, barbs no longer than the hook gap)
Deer hair Natural deer hair (One medium clump, cleaned and stacked)
How to tie it
Pinch the barb, mount the hook and lay a smooth thread base of red 70 denier from the eye back to a point above where the barb was.
Pull about ten golden pheasant tippet fibers from the feather with the tips aligned and tie them in as a tail a little longer than the hook gap, leaving the second black bar showing beyond the bend. Bind the butts forward rather than trimming them. The body is bulky enough to hide them.
Tie in a length of small wire at the back for the rib, then run the thread forward to just behind the eye.
Catch in the orange floss (or poly yarn) at the front only, wrap it back to the tail and then forward again to give two layers, and tie it off at the front. Do not fuss over perfection. The palmered hackle covers it.
Select a grizzly hackle one size smaller than the hook (barbs no longer than the hook gap), strip a short bare stem and tie it in at the front, then trim the butt before wrapping so it stays out of the way of the deer hair.
Take one full wrap of hackle at the front, then palmer it back to the tail in close, evenly spaced turns for a bushy, floaty fly. Hold the feather tip with your material hand.
Counter-wrap the wire rib forward through the hackle in open, zigzagging turns to lock the feather in, tie it off with three wraps just behind the eye and helicopter off the excess. Trim or fold back any hackle barbs pointing over the eye.
Back the thread off the eye to leave a tie-in point. Stack a medium clump of deer hair, pull out the underfur, measure the tips to the bend of the hook, and cut the butts off square before tying in. This makes the head much easier to trim.
Secure the hair with one or two soft wraps, pull it down onto the top of the shank with a couple of medium wraps, then lock it with tight wraps at the front. Trim the standing butts as short as you can.
Build a small ramped thread head over the clipped butts, work back and forth until the deer hair is buried, then whip finish three or four turns and add a drop of head cement or UV resin.