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Olive Bloa

Wet Fly · Trout · Grayling · Beginner · 1 version

Classic Recipe

• Hook Standard wet fly / spider hook, 14-16
• Thread Greenish-yellow (Pearsall's Gossamer) 8/0

Materials

• Silk Greenish-yellow Pearsall's Gossamer, waxed (full body)
• Body The waxed greenish-yellow silk (shank)
• Hackle Feather from a starling's quill (starling wing covert) (1 turn)

How to tie it

1. Run the greenish-yellow silk from behind the eye to above the barb and back to the two-thirds mark; the silk itself is the body.
2. Tie in a soft grey covert from a starling's wing by the tip at the two-thirds mark.
3. Take one sparse turn of hackle and secure with two turns of silk.
4. Stroke the fibres back, build a small head, whip finish and varnish.

Tying videos

• Olive Bloa — Learn Fly Fishing (YouTube)
• Olive Bloa — Davie McPhail (YouTube)
• Olive Bloa — Fly Fish Food (YouTube)

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