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Rusty Spinner

Dry Fly · Trout · Grayling · Beginner · 3 versions

Classic Recipe

• Hook Standard dry fly, 14-20
• Thread Brown 8/0

Materials

• Tail Dun microfibbetts (split)
• Body Rusty brown dubbing (slender)
• Wing White poly yarn or hackle (spent)

How to tie it

1. Mount hook, tie in split microfibbett tails, splayed wide.
2. Dub a slender rusty-brown body to the 70% mark.
3. Tie a length of white poly yarn across the shank at the thorax with figure-8 wraps. The wings should lie dead flat, straight out to the sides.
4. Dub one turn over the figure-8 wraps to clean up the thorax. Whip finish.

Substitutions

• Body instead of Rusty brown dubbing: Rusty Spinner Superfine — Exact color match; Brown/orange blended dubbing — Close to rusty tone
• Wing instead of White poly yarn or hackle: White CDC (spent) — More natural; Clear Medallion sheeting — Realistic spent wing

Other versions

2 more in the app: Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 1, Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 2.

Tying videos

• Rusty Spinner — Tim Flagler (Orvis)
• Rusty Spinner — Fly Fish Food (YouTube)
• Rusty Spinner — Fly Fish Food (Fly Fish Food (tutorial))

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