hook - Dai Riki 280 #10
thread - Danville 6/0 brown
tail - EP Fibers light olive
tag - Uni-stretch Chinese red
rear wing - elk hair
rib - x-small wire gold
body - peacock herl
body hackle - coachman brown
wing - calf tail white
front hackle - coachman brown
Part 1
mash barb, start thread at hook point; tie in CH, fold, wrap back to point above barb
return to point; tie in Uni-stretch, leave tag-end long
wrap to tail and back; tie off/trim
pull tag-end over top; tie off/trim, trim tail (gap width)
clean, stack, measure (tips to tail) a clump of elk; tie in
Something I don’t understand, please 'splain it to me? Is there a real difference in the effectiveness by reverse hackling and tying down with wire instead of hackling forward and tying down “regular”?
The wire provides a bit of re-enforcement for the body hackle, and on this fly, the peacock; leaving the tag end of the tying thread long and using that as the rib works fine, too. Probably not much, if any, difference in effectiveness wrapping it front to back or back to front; I just prefer how it looks when I wrap front to back (doesn’t show so well on this fly since the body hackle’s clipped).
Per Mr. LaFontaine, “attractor for those days that photographers call cloudy bright. Clouds cover everything, but there is enough light coming through so that everything isn?t a dark gray.”
Pretty much the same tying sequence as the Royal Double Wing
hook - TMC 5212 #10
thread - UTC 140 grey brown
tail - Congo Hair dun
tag - tying thread
rear wing - deer hair
body - poly dubbing grey (original used antron)
body hackle - silver badger
wing - calf tail white
front hackle - dun/grizzly
Swapping the wings for poly (EP/Widow’s Web/Congo) works at least as well and drastically cuts tying time. A fly that looks just like the Royal save with fire orange thread for the tag, yarn wings, and golden straw-grizzly body hackle was the ticket yesterday on the Gibbon.
