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Silver Invicta
Wet Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 2 versions
Classic Recipe
- Hook Standard wet, 10-14
- Thread Yellow 8/0
Materials
- Tail GP crest (small)
- Body Flat silver tinsel (smooth)
- Rib Oval silver (fine)
- Body hackle Ginger, palmered (sparse)
- Throat Blue jay (sparse)
- Wing Hen Pheasant (rolled)
How to tie it
- Mount the wet hook and start yellow thread. Run it to the bend above the barb.
- Tie in a small golden pheasant crest as a tail, curving upward, no longer than a hook gap past the bend.
- Bind in fine oval silver rib at the tail, then tie in flat silver tinsel and wind a smooth, even body forward to just short of the eye. Tie off.
- Tie in a ginger cock hackle by the tip at the front and palmer it back to the tail in open turns. Sparse, 4-5 turns over the body.
- Counter-wind the oval silver rib forward through the palmered hackle to lock it in, then tie off and clip.
- Tie in a sparse blue jay throat as a beard beneath the hook, reaching to the point.
- Roll a hen pheasant wing slip, set it low over the body tips-back, bind down, form the head, whip finish and cement.
Other versions
1 more in the app: Classic Recipe (2).
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