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Pablos Sally

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 3 versions

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

InTheRiffle dressing

  • Hook Tiemco 100SP-BL, 16
  • Thread Yellow Semperfli Nano Silk 30 Denier

Materials

  • Tail #4 GloBrite Floss
  • Body Medium Opal Mirage Tinsel
  • Wing Yellow PolyPro Macrame Yarn
  • Head/Overwing Yellow Nature’s Spirit Emergence Dubbing
  • Head/Overwing2 2 Yellow CDC Feathers
  • Head/Overwing3 Bleached Coastal Deer Hair (Home Dyed Yellow) or Standard Deer Hair

How to tie it

  1. Dub a small red butt at the bend to suggest the yellow sally's egg sac.
  2. Dub a slim pale-yellow body forward to the 70% mark.
  3. Stack a small bunch of light elk hair and tie it in as a downwing, tips reaching just past the bend; trim the butts.
  4. Tie a pair of pale legs along the sides at the wing base so a leg trails on each side.
  5. Tie in a ginger hackle and take three or four turns through the front of the body; secure and trim.
  6. Build a small head, whip finish and add a drop of cement.

Other versions

2 more in the app: Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 1, Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 2.

Tying videos

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