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Silver Sedge

Wet Fly · Trout · Grayling · Intermediate · 2 versions

Classic Recipe

  • Hook standard dry/wet fly, 10-14
  • Thread brown 8/0

Materials

  • Body White or cream floss (full shank)
  • Rib Fine oval silver tinsel (4-5 turns)
  • Body hackle Ginger cock hackle palmered (optional) (1)
  • Wing Landrail or light brown/coastal hen wing quill slips tented over the body (matched pair)
  • Front hackle Ginger cock hackle (1-2 turns)
  • Head Brown material (small)

How to tie it

  1. Lay a thread base and tie in the fine silver rib at the rear.
  2. Wrap a slim white or cream floss body forward, then counter-wrap the silver rib in 4-5 even turns for flash and segmentation.
  3. If desired, palmer a ginger cock hackle over the body for a fuller caddis silhouette, following the rib.
  4. Tie in two matched light brown wing-quill slips low and tent-shaped over the body, sloping back past the bend like a resting sedge.
  5. Wind a ginger cock hackle just behind the eye (slightly longer than a normal dry hackle so it works as a wet), then whip finish a small brown head and cement.

Other versions

1 more in the app: Gregg Dressing (1940).

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