Deerhair parachute SBS

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After some questions about how to make a deerhair parachte fly in an earlier posting of me, I’ve made an small Step by step.
Hopefully is it clear enough how it is tied after reading and watching the following photo’s.
(I’ll hope that my English is understandable enough for this Step by step)

Tie in thread and make a small ball of your tying thread in order to make it easy to spread the tied in fibres.

Make with dubbing a body.

Stack a bunch of deerhair and measure it to approx. half a shank length.

Tie in the deerhair

Make a tuft of the deerhair that stands right up, and tie in some peacock hearls

Make a thorax with the peacock hearls, and whipfinish your fly.

Make the tuft flat with your index finger

Inject with your dubbingneedle a small drop of bug bond/bug off or other UV hardend liquid

Harden the UV reactive liquid

And Ready!

Success with tying!
Inderk

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The English is just fine and dandy, Inderk, as is the SBS.

I haven’t seen this “parachute” approach demonstrated before. Thanks much for the SBS.

It does seem that there is a bit too much deer hair and that the parachute would obscure the body when viewed from below. But the concept is something to work with.

John

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Inderk,
I agree with John Scott.
Thanks,
Ed

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Interesting. Never seen that technique before. Thanks for the SBS, Inderk.

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I’ve never seen a fly made like that before. I love it. :smiley:

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Very nice. I’m plotting how to get to my bench now that my hip surgery is in the rear view mirror, only 11 days out, but I feel better every day. Now, what size is this little devil?
Thanks,
Mike

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Inderk,

What a cool approach to parachutes; will definitely give that a try. Thanks so much for the pics.

Regards,
Scott

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This one is tied at a standard dry fly hook size 12.
Normally i’ll these from hook size #10 - #14 Size #16 and smaller is possible, but you have then to take care what kind of deerhair you’ll use.
(Short deerhair)

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Very nice… Thank you.

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thank you for the SBS!