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Sol Duc

Salmon/Steelhead · Steelhead · Salmon · Intermediate · 1 version

Classic Recipe

  • Hook Spey iron or classic salmon hook (e.g. Alec Jackson Spey), 3-5
  • Thread Red (head), fine GSP for tying 30 denier GSP / 8/0

Materials

  • Tip Flat silver tinsel (1)
  • Tail Golden Pheasant Crest (1)
  • Rib Silver mylar/oval tinsel (1)
  • Body Rust-orange floss (1)
  • Body hackle Yellow cock or golden pheasant hackle, palmered (1)
  • Collar Teal flank (1)
  • Wing Four hot-orange hackle tips, tented (4)

How to tie it

  1. Wrap a short flat silver tinsel tip above the barb and tie in a golden pheasant crest tail curving up.
  2. Tie in the silver rib and the yellow body hackle by its tip at the bend.
  3. Wrap a slim, smooth body of rust-orange floss over the rear two-thirds of the shank. Glasso's flies were famously slender, so keep thread bumps to a minimum.
  4. Spiral the rib forward in 4-5 evenly spaced turns, then palmer the yellow hackle forward alongside it, letting the long fibers flow back.
  5. Take 1-2 turns of teal flank as a collar at the front.
  6. Tie in four hot-orange hackle tips as a low, tented wing over the body, then build a small bright red head and whip finish.

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