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Spade

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

Tyer Recipe

• Hook up-eye steelhead/salmon wet, 4-8
• Thread black 6/0

Materials

• tail Natural deer hair (clump of deer body hair)
• body Black dubbing (black dubbing or chenille)
• collar hackle Grizzly collar hackle (1 soft webby feather)

How to tie it

1. Attach the thread behind the eye and wrap to the bend.
2. Tie in a short, dense clump of natural deer body hair as a tail about one shank-length long.
3. Dub or wrap a slim black body forward to about one eye-width behind the eye.
4. Tie in a soft grizzly hackle and wrap two or three turns as a sparse collar, sweeping the fibers back.
5. Form a small head and whip finish.

Tying videos

• Spade — hooked4life (YouTube)

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