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Fly Tying: Streamers

Author: Rob Stockley
Published: 2006/10/29
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Green Rabbit

Size: 8-12

Secure thread and wrap hook shank.

Tie in a tail of red fibres (hackle, cotton, or wool).

Tie in silver wire ribbing; secure green chenille.

Wrap chenille forward and tie in.

Trim ends of rabbit ('zonker') strip and tie in at anterior end.

Lie zonker strip along top of hook and secure with silver ribbing with 3-5 turns. (wetting the fur will enable easier separation of fibres for ribbing)

Tie off ribbing; add pale hackle below body of fly.

Finish with a good head and cement.

Woolly bugger

Wind on a layer of lead wire along the hook shank.

Tie in thread and secure the lead in place using figure of eight loops so that it cannot move.

Tie in olive marabou feathers for a tail. (One or two lengths of flasherbou can be added to the tail). Tail length should be roughly equal to the length of the hook shank.

Tie in wire to be used for ribbing at the rear of the hook.

Tie in olive chenille and wind forward. Tie off and trim the excess.

Strip one side of an olive hackle feather of its fibres and tie in, hackled side out.

Wind the hackle feather back towards the rear of the fly with 4-6 even wraps.

Wind the ribbing wire forward though the body of the fly, in the opposite direction to the chenille & hackle, with about 5 turns.

Whip finish and cement.

This fly is very easy to tie and is extremely durable. It can be tied in different colours and sizes from #6 - #18. A large black version is particularly useful in dirty water or at night.

Red setter

Tie in thread and wrap hook shank.

Tie in squirrel tail fibres (equal to hookshank length), and silver thread or wire for ribbing.

Make a turn of thread under the tail fibres, to raise them slightly - if the tail is tied too far back on the bend of the hook, it will not be in line with the hook shaft.

Tie in a length of chenille and wind to mid-point of hook shank. Tie off, but do not cut the chenille.

Tie in hackle feather.

Wind on 3-4 turns of hackle and tie off.

Pull the splayed hackle fibres back and hold in place with thread.

Continue winding chenille forward, ending a short distance behind the eye of the hook, leaving enough room to tie in a second hackle, and to form a head.

Tie in second hackle, pull the fibres back and tie off as before. ( a third hackle may also be added with a further short section of chenille as in the illustrated example - in this case the first two hackles must be placed further back to allow sufficient space for the third)

Wind ribbing forward and tie off. Whip finish and cement.

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