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Snipe Bloa

Wet Fly · Trout · Grayling · Beginner · 1 version

Classic Recipe

  • Hook Standard wet fly / spider hook, 14-16
  • Thread Straw / primrose (Pearsall's Gossamer) 8/0

Materials

  • Silk Straw-coloured Pearsall's Gossamer, lightly waxed (full body)
  • Body The waxed straw silk (shank)
  • Hackle Feather from the inside of a Jack Snipe's wing (1 turn)

How to tie it

  1. Run the straw silk from behind the eye to above the barb and back to the two-thirds mark; the straw silk itself is the body.
  2. Tie in a soft pale covert from the inside of a Jack Snipe's wing by the tip at the two-thirds mark.
  3. Take a single sparse turn of hackle and secure with two turns of silk.
  4. Stroke the fibres back, build a small head, whip finish and varnish.

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