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Shady Lady

Salmon/Steelhead · Salmon · Steelhead · Advanced · 3 versions

Fischer's Flies dressing

  • Hook Fulling Mill 6040 Streamer Stripper, 1/0
  • Thread Veevus Power Thread - White 140D

Materials

  • Shank Spawn Fly Fish Articulated Shank - 25mm
  • Body Fulling Mill Salty Flash Brush Short (.75") - Oyster Pearl
  • Legs Hareline's Crazy Legs - White Pearl/Fl. Orange Tip
  • Eyes Fulling Mill Epoxy Eye - Fl. Red 7.0mm
  • Resin Solarez Bone Dry AND Solarez Bone Flex Dry
  • Connecting Wire Senyo's Intruder Wire - Large (Size 6 hook or larger)
  • Head Fulling Mill Salty Flash Brush Long (2") - Oyster Pearl

How to tie it

  1. Mount the salmon single and start black thread behind the eye. Run it back to a point just short of the barb.
  2. Tie in a few turns of small silver oval or flat tinsel for the tag, right above the barb, and clip.
  3. Dub or wind a slim black body forward, stopping about one eye-length short of the eye. Keep it lean and slightly tapered.
  4. Bind in oval silver tinsel at the tail and spiral it forward over the body in 5-6 evenly spaced open turns. Tie off and clip.
  5. Cut, clean and stack a sparse pinch of black squirrel or bear. Bind it on top as a low wing reaching to the end of the tag, tips pointing back.
  6. Wind a black (or blue) soft hackle as a short collar, 2-3 turns, then sweep the fibers back and down with your thumb.
  7. Form a small neat head, whip finish and add a drop of head cement.

Other versions

2 more in the app: Classic Recipe, Fischer's Flies.

Tying videos

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