Dunc's Dragon (aka Floating Carey) SBS

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Fewer moving parts than the Kaufmann floater, fish it in a similar way. Cool fly from Duncan Laird; thanks to the folks over on Washington Flyfishing for cluing me in on this one.

hook - TMC 5212 #6
thread - UTC 140 brown olive/UTC 70 wood duck
body - deer hair mixture
hackle - pheasant rump

Part 1

Take a little of this

this

this

more of this

and a lot of this

clean, trim the tips, throw it in a bag and mix it up

mash barb, attach thread

take a clump of the deer hair mix, 2 soft loops, spin and pack

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Part 2

repeat

up the hook shank; tie off, cut thread

flip it over, lay a razor blade on the hook eye as a reference and push it back to the tail

rough cuts

refined cuts (keep a shop vac handy)

re-attach thread (switched to smaller thread to keep bulk down; optional)

select a pheasant rump feather with barbs hook shank length; tie in by butt, sweep fibers back while wrapping forward

whip, SHHAN

Regards,
Scott

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Scott,

Another great SBS, thanks! For mixing deer hair, another technique you can use is by using your hair stacker. This only lets you do it one clump at a time but gives the same effect. Put smaller amounts of deer hair into the stacker and then use a popsicle stick to mix them up. Give the stacker a couple taps to even out the hair and you end up with a mixed bunch. You wont be able to do it by the bagful like in your technique, but you also wont have to try to get a mess of hair into a stacker.

I learned this technique from an article by Ward Bean in an old issue of Fly Tyer magazine. I wrote a Tying Tip article for this website some years ago.

Alberto