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No Hackle PMD

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Note: This recipe has not been verified against a documented source, or disagrees with one. Treat the materials and steps as unconfirmed.

Charlie's Fly Box dressing

  • Hook Tiemco 100, 14-20
  • Thread Light Cahill or Light Olive Veevus 14/0

Materials

  • Tail Light Dun Mayfly Tails
  • Body PMD or BWO Superfine Dubbing
  • Wing Natural Duck Quill

How to tie it

  1. Lay a thread base to the bend.
  2. Tie in a split tail of light dun fibers one shank long, splayed into a wide V.
  3. Dub a slim, tapered pale-yellow-olive PMD body to the 70% mark.
  4. Tie two matched light-dun duck-quill slips low on each side (sidewinder), curving apart and standing about one shank tall.
  5. Figure-8 dubbing at the wing bases to set and separate them.
  6. Dub a short thorax to the eye.
  7. Whip finish and cement.

Tying videos

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