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Salmon/Steelhead · Wet Fly · Steelhead · Intermediate · 1 version

Note: This recipe has not been verified against a documented source, or disagrees with one. Treat the materials and steps as unconfirmed.

Tyer Recipe

  • Hook up-eye steelhead/salmon wet, 2-8
  • Thread black 6/0

Materials

  • tail Red hackle (hackle fibers)
  • rib Silver oval tinsel (oval tinsel)
  • body Black chenille (black chenille)
  • wing White bucktail (bucktail)
  • collar hackle Black collar hackle (1 feather)

How to tie it

  1. Start the thread and wrap to the bend.
  2. Tie in a short tail of red hackle fibers about one shank-length long.
  3. Tie in oval silver rib, then tie in black chenille at the bend.
  4. Wrap the chenille body forward to about one-quarter shank behind the eye and tie off.
  5. Spiral the rib forward in evenly spaced turns and tie off.
  6. Tie in a sparse white bucktail wing over the back reaching to the end of the tail.
  7. Wrap two or three turns of black hackle as a collar and sweep it back.
  8. Form a small head and whip finish.

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