Sawada's Ta-ba-s-co SBS

All about flies Fly Tying
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Could also be called the LSD Royal Dutch Coachman Trude, I guess. Makes the Love’s Lure, Doudy’s Gunnison Stimi and the Gunnison River Trude look like Catskill dries.

hook - Dai Riki 320 #12
thread - Danville 6/0 hot orange
body - duck quill hot orange/peacock sword
wing - peacock sword
hackle - rear grizzly/front hot orange

Part 1

mash barb, start thread at 2/3 mark; wrap to bend

tie in some duck quill fibers; take a couple wraps, tie down

tie in some peacock sword fibers; take a couple wraps (try to keep these segments equal in width), tie off/trim

take a few more wraps of duck quill; tie off/trim

strip off some more peacock sword fibers, trying to keep tips/curvature aligned; measure (gap width past bend), tie in/trim

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Part 2

tie in grizzly hackle; wrap, tie off/trim

repeat with orange grizzly

tie off/trim, half hitch x 2, SHHAN

Regards,
Scott

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Scott,

Another gorgeous tie. For working with peacock sword feathers, I use a tip from Davie McPhail to keep them all aligned: snip off a piece of the feathers with the fibers still on it and trim it AFTER you have tied down the fibers. This keeps them all lined up and curving the same way.

Alberto

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Alberto,

That’s a great tip; I’ve used it in the past but my peacock sword supply is bare bones right now and I had to bunch stragglers together to make the wing on this fly. Once I get some more sword feathers it’ll be back to Davie’s way.

Regards,
Scott