Here’s a 1st shot at a Green Drake Wulff. Didn’t have any dun calf-tail or green-dyed grizzly hackle, so I fudged stuff a bit. A bit rough, need to tie a few more to get it right.
hook - Tiemco 5212 #10
thread - UTC 140 olive/brown
tail - moose body
wing - deer hair dun
body - rabbit olive
rib - 1 strand embroidery floss yellow
hackle - olive and grizzly mixed
Part 1
mash barb and start thread at 75% mark
cut a good sized clump of deer hair; clean, stack and measure for length (hook shank); I don’t usually start at the wing, but with deer hair,calf tail, etc it leaves a big bump at tie-in; it’s easier to tie the tail in afterwards and create a smooth body
place hair on top of shank; 2 soft loops on top of each other
pull bobbin firmly towards you allowing hair to flair (but not spin); take a few more very firm wraps, pull butts up and cut at an angle
add a drop of Crazy glue to the stub and apply more thread wraps to anchor and smooth, then move in front of hair, pull up and apply thread dam to set wing upright
prep hackle, tie feathers in front of wing, between wings
wind hackle, make it heavy (4 wraps behind, 6 in front per feather)
trim hackle, tie off, add Sally and you’re done; wing’s probably about 1/2 a hook eye diameter too far back, but at least I didn’t crowd the eye (which I almost always do on a first fly)
front view
The deer hair wing kinda gets lost in the hackle; need to find a good dun-dyed calftail.