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Remote Control Soft Hackle

Wet Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Standard dry/nymph (TMC 206BL), 16-20
  • Thread Dun 14/0

Materials

  • Tail Coq de Leon (small tuft)
  • Wire rib (X-small) Copper wire (1 length)
  • Dubbing Olive/pheasant (as needed)
  • Wing case Thin foam (1 strip)
  • Soft hackle Partridge or hen (or CDC) (1 feather / tuft)

How to tie it

  1. Start thread and lay a base to the bend. Tie in a short tuft of Coq de Leon fibers as a tail, half a shank long.
  2. Catch in a length of X-small copper wire at the tail.
  3. Dub a slim body two-thirds up the shank.
  4. Counter-wrap the copper wire forward in 4-5 open turns for a rib, then tie off and break the wire.
  5. Tie in a thin strip of foam at the thorax pointing back, this becomes the wing case that helps the fly lift and ride in the film.
  6. Wrap a partridge or hen soft hackle (or a turn of CDC) at the front for legs and sweep it back.
  7. Pull the foam strip forward over the thorax as a low wing case, tie it down behind the eye and trim.
  8. Whip finish and cement.

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