I could use some help with this fly. I've fished with it and done well in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Now I'd like to make some of my own.



This place has a recipe of sorts:
https://www.flyofthemonthclub.com/st...g.asp?item=331

But, it doesn't tell me how to do the butt (what's it made of? chenille? how do I get it to taper like that?). Nor does it tell me what the material might be for the wing... post is calf's hair, lower part of wing above the butt is deer hair, but what's the part right above that? It probably wouldn't hurt to leave it off and I bet it will fish just as good.

Thanks!
John R