Montezuma's Callibaetis Spinner SBS

[ScottP]

Based on a fly from Bojan Novakovic. A beautiful tie, his used guinea for the tail and a sparse wing; I subbed hackle fibers for the tail to improve floatation and a few more turns of Mearns (very similar to guinea but better suited for smaller flies than the guinea I have) to beef up the wing a bit.

hook ? Dai Riki 320 #14
thread - MFC 8/0 sand
tail - grizzly hackle
abdomen - turkey biot callibaetis
hackle - grizzly (oversize by 1)
wing - Mearns (aka Montezuma) quail


Part 1

mash barb, start thread at 2/3 mark, wrap to point above barb and create thread bump




strip off some hackle fibers, measure (hook length), tie in with wraps against the bump to splay/set angle






tie in (moistened) biot, notch-side down for ribbed effect; wrap to 2/3 mark, tie off/trim






tie in hackle




move thread to 3/4 mark and tie in quail by tip




wrap quail (keep the wraps tight against each other), tie off/trim

[ScottP]

Part 2

stroke fibers forward, divide evenly and set wing with cross-wraps






wrap hackle behind and in front of wing; tie off/trim, half hitch x 2, SHHAN




trim out hackle underneath










Regards,
Scott

[1hook]

I like how the quail gives the impression of wings. I like to see a soft hackle wrapped with a rooster feather