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Parachute Blue Wing Olive

Dry Fly · Trout · Grayling · Intermediate · 2 versions

Reference Recipe

• Hook standard dry-fly hook, 16-22
• Thread olive 8/0

Materials

• Microfibetts or hackle barbs (tail) Dun hackle (a few fibers)
• Fine dry-fly dubbing Olive ice dub (small pinch)
• Poly yarn (post) White poly yarn (small tuft)
• Dry-fly hackle Blue dun hackle (1 feather)

How to tie it

1. Start the thread and tie in an upright white post at the 65% mark, collaring its base to stand it up.
2. Tie in a sparse dun tail at the bend, one shank length long.
3. Dub a slim olive body from the bend to the post.
4. Tie a blue-dun hackle in at the post, shiny side up.
5. Dub a small thorax around the post base and up to the eye.
6. Wind the hackle parachute-style in 4-5 turns and tie off against the post.
7. Whip finish at the eye and add a tiny drop of cement, keeping it off the hackle.

Other versions

1 more in the app: Barbless.

Tying videos

• Parachute Blue Wing Olive — The feather bender (YouTube)
• Parachute Blue Wing Olive — Kevin Hospodar (YouTube)
• Parachute Blue Wing Olive — Charlie's Fly Box (YouTube)
• Parachute Blue Wing Olive — Hans Stephenson (YouTube)

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