The Sedgehog

Fly Patterns
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Someone in the Chat-room asked about the Sedghog_
This is the recipe given by Stan Headey the man who invented the Sedgehogl

SEDGEHOG
Hook - Partridge E1A or L3A, 12 & 14
Silk - black
Body - claret, fiery brown, or olive green seal’s fur
or wel-mixed hare’s mask fur
Wing - bunches of deer hair, tyed matuka style (dark deer hair with the dark dubbings, and light hair with the lighter dubbings)

Tying Tip: As each bunch of hair is tied in, lay a couple of turns of dubbed thread is over the deer hair roots, to prevent the deer hair from spining.
A Black Sedgehog
http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL170/17 … 527261.jpg

Here is the source :-
http://www.mallenyangling.co.uk/the_dry_loch.html

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Thank you Donald! I appreciated the effort you undertook in answering my question.

Michael

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Donald, Thanks for posting the information about this fly. It has some similarities to the Mikulak Sedge that they use up in the Kamloops region in BC. I have adapted it by tying it in orange for our October Caddis hatch here in Montana. It makes a grat pattern for skating during that hatch.