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Royal Wulff Purple Dry Fly

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook standard dry-fly hook, 10-16
  • Thread Black 8/0

Materials

  • Wings White calf tail (upright divided pair)
  • Tail Moose body hair (or brown bucktail) (1 small bunch)
  • Body Peacock herl / purple floss / peacock herl (banded)
  • Hackle Coachman brown hackle (1-2 feathers)

How to tie it

  1. Start thread, stack white calf tail, and tie in upright divided hair wings at the 70% mark; post and divide them.
  2. Wrap to the bend and tie in a moose-hair (or brown bucktail) tail, one shank long.
  3. Build the body: a peacock ball, a purple floss center band, then a peacock ball, up to the wings.
  4. Tie in one or two brown hackles behind the wings.
  5. Wind the hackle 2-3 turns behind the wings and 2-3 in front; tie off.
  6. Whip finish and cement.

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