Tail 1 each fine ultra chenille- yellow, red, green
Collar/Hackle 1 each- yellow, red, and chartreuse grizzly soft hackle
Cement Loon water based head cement (scent free)
How to tie it
Mount the Gamakatsu SL45 size 6, start a black thread — a fairly strong one helps — and lash the Chartreuse Medium bead chain eyes in at the head end of the shank.
Run the thread to the butt and wrap a small ball of Cohens Northern Lights Black Carp Dub there. The ball is what divides the tails when they go on.
Measure the yellow, red and green fine Ultra Chenille to the length of the hook shank and tie one on top of the shank and one on either side, hard against the dubbing ball; snug them down, trim the excess, and touch a flame to the tail ends so they do not fray.
Bind the remaining butts down to make a smooth base for the dubbing.
Form a dubbing loop at the tail and load it with the Cohens Northern Lights Black Carp Dub. Do not twist it overly tight — the blend carries little rubber legs and subtle flash, and they need to move and flow freely.
Tease the spun dubbing out by hand first to free everything up, then wrap it forward one or two turns at a time, taming the fibres back as you go, and tie it off short of the bead chain eyes. A little excess left over gets used at the eyes.
Brush the body out with a velcro brush or pick, sweeping the rubber legs and synthetic fibres back.
Strip the downy fibres off one chartreuse, one yellow and one red grizzly soft hackle to leave plenty of stem, tie all three in by the butts in front of the body, snug them down and trim the stems.
Grip all three feathers at once in hackle pliers and take one or two wraps as a single collar; clip the tips, wrap in the last strays and push the fibres back.
Dub a little more carp dub in around the bead chain eyes to finish the head.
Throw a couple of knots in, cut the thread, and coat the wraps with Loon water based head cement — it is scent free, unlike superglue.
Brush the fly forward first to blend the hackle into the dubbing, then brush everything back.