Rooster hackle (palmered) Orange hackle (One feather with long barbs, four or five turns)
Rooster or webby cape hackle (front collar) Orange hackle (One larger, webbier feather, six to eight turns or more)
How to tie it
Mount the wet fly hook and start orange thread. Take 10-12 barbs from one of the larger feathers at the base of the same cape you will use for the hackle and tie them in as a fairly long tail on top of the shank. Do not worry about a smooth underbody. It will all be covered.
Tie in mylar tinsel just behind the eye with the silver side toward the hook, and tie in the silver wire rib at the same point. Catching both in at the front saves a step and keeps the underbody smoother.
Park the thread at the front, pull the wire out of the way, and wrap the mylar body back and then forward up to your thread. Tie off and trim.
Select a hackle with long barbs and tie it in near the front (not too far back. You want the biggest, bushiest part of the feather saved for the front collar).
Palmer the hackle back toward the bend in four or five open turns, keeping tension on the feather at the tail.
Take the first turn of the wire rib tightly over the hackle tip at the bend to lock it in, then zigzag the wire forward through the palmered barbs. Trapping a few barbs is normal.
Tie the wire off at the front with several wraps (it is thick wire, so it takes a lot) then helicopter it off and cover any nub. Trim the palmered feather's excess.
Tie in a larger, webbier feather at the front and take six, eight or more turns for the collar. It will look like a dry fly hackle at first; the last few turns lay it down into the wet fly sweepback.
Wet your fingers, pull all the barbs back and build a big wet fly head, then whip finish.
Free any barbs trapped forward, trim the excess feather close and add a drop of head cement. No other cleanup, this fly is meant to be big and bushy.