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Purple Haze

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 5 versions

Classic Recipe

• Hook Standard dry fly, 12-18
• Thread Purple 8/0

Materials

• Tail Moose body hair (few fibers)
• Body Purple dubbing or stripped hackle quill (slender)
• Wing post White calf body hair (upright)
• Hackle Grizzly hackle (parachute)

How to tie it

1. Mount hook, tie in calf hair wing post
2. Tie in moose hair tail
3. Wrap body, quill or dubbing
4. Wrap hackle parachute around post
5. Whip finish

Other versions

4 more in the app: Fischer's Flies, Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 1, Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 2, Barbless.

Tying videos

• Purple Haze — Fly Fish Food (YouTube)
• Purple Haze — Fly Fish Food (Fly Fish Food (tutorial))
• Purple Haze — Fly Fish Food (Fly Fish Food (tutorial))
• Purple Haze — Fly Fish Food (Fly Fish Food (tutorial))
• Purple Haze — Savage Flies (YouTube)
• Purple Haze — River Dog Outpost (YouTube)
• Purple Haze — Fly Fish Food (YouTube)

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