Hook:  Standard dry fly, sizes 20 to 12 (the hook shown is an Eagle Claw D59f).

Thread:  Brown 8/0 to 6/0.

Palmered Rib:  Grizzly Hackle (one size smaller than usual).

Body:  Olive floss or dubbing.

Underwing:  Wood duck or mallard dyed wood-duck color.

Wings:  Natural gray mallard quill.

Hackle:  Brown.

1. Start the thread, tie in a grizzly hackle, (one size smaller than usual) at the bend, add dubbing or tie in floss, and wrap a body up two-thirds of the shank. (If you used floss, bind its end and trim it.)

2. Palmer the hackle up the body in about six turns, secure the hackle's tip with thread turns, and trim the tip. Trim the hackle fibers from the top half of the body.

3. Using the pinch, tie in a bunch of fibers from a wood-duck or mallard-dyed-to-wood-duck-color feather atop the body. Trim the butts of the fibers and bind them with thread.

4. Tie in a matched set of quill wings, long edges down, cupped around the wood duck. You can tie both quill sections in at the same time using the wing pinch, but I prefer to tie the quills in down the sides of the body a bit, one at a time.

5. Snip the butts of the quills and bind them with thread. (Note the length of the wings; they can be slightly longer or shorter, but what you see is about right.) Tie in two brown hackles (or only one if you prefer).

6. Wind the first hackle, secure its tip under thread turns, and then wind the second hackle through the first (unless, of course, you are using only one hackle). Secure the second hackle's tip with thread, and then trim both tips. Create a thread head and complete the fly as usual." ~ Skip Morris