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Pheasant Tail Sulphur

Nymph · Trout · Grayling · 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.

Savage Flies dressing

  • Hook Nymph, 14-18
  • Thread Brown

Materials

  • Weight 0.015 or 0.020 diameter
  • Tail Pheasant tail fibers
  • Rib Copper wire
  • Body Pheasant tail fibers
  • Thorax Peacock herl
  • Wingcase Pheasant tail fibers
  • Legs Pheasant tail fibers

How to tie it

  1. Cover the shank to the bend and tie in 3-4 amber pheasant fibers for a tail half a shank length long.
  2. Bind in the gold wire, twist the pheasant fibers into a rope and wrap a slim abdomen forward to the 65% mark; tie off.
  3. Counter-wrap the gold rib 4-5 evenly spaced turns and secure.
  4. Tie in a small bunch of amber pheasant fibers as a wingcase pointing rearward.
  5. Dub a slim amber-to-pale-yellow thorax, slightly fuller than the abdomen.
  6. Pull the wingcase over, tie down behind the eye, snip, whip finish and cement.

Tying videos

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