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Mother's Day Sally

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Standard dry-fly hook, 12-16
  • Thread Yellow or tan 8/0 (70 denier)

Materials

  • Glass or plastic bead Orange slotted tungsten bead (1 (egg sac at the bend))
  • Fine dry-fly dubbing Pale yellow dubbing (pinch (body))
  • Elk or deer hair Bleached/tan elk or deer hair (small clump (wing))
  • Dry-fly hackle Ginger or grizzly dry fly hackle (1 feather)

How to tie it

  1. Slide a small orange bead to the bend of the hook and start thread in front of it to lock it in place as the egg sac.
  2. Dub a slim pale-yellow body forward from the bead to the 75% mark.
  3. Optionally palmer a ginger or grizzly hackle through the body, then tie off at 75%.
  4. Stack a small clump of bleached elk hair and tie it in as a low caddis-style wing extending to the bend.
  5. Trim the butts to a short head stub at the eye.
  6. Whip finish behind the eye and add a drop of cement.

Tying videos

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