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Tying The Basic Dry |
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I will try to explain things in the upmost detail not forgeting anything to small. So to start I will be showing one of the most important dry flys and some variant ways to tie it. It's the Adam's, every trout angler should have some sort of variant in thier fly box. So to start we will need these materials:
First inser the hook into the vise, the majority of the grip should be applied to the bend of the hook and not the spear, especially when tying on small springy hooks. Once the hook is properly secured start one eye length back from the eye and wrap the thread towards the bend not overlaping but close together.
Make sure to spin the twist out of the thread every so often, it should be a habbit, this will leave the thread flat on the hook shank and make for a neater more durable fly. Continue to the bend of the hook and then take the hackle stem and pinch off some fibers, do your best to aling the tips and hold be tip and bring flat to the shank of the hook. The tail should extend as far as the length of the gap of the hook.
Continue to hold the tips and secure the fibers with nice even wraps travel back toward the eye then back to the bend. Now pinch some Muskrat under fur, the gray stuff, or use Adam' Gray #3 dubbing. Use only small amount at a time, take and place on the thread, then roll in your finger in "one" direction until bound on to the thread.
Warp forward adding dubbing when needed
Try to taper the body as you move up the shank. Once two thrirds up the shank stop and prepare you hackle. This is done by cleaning of a section of the quill, most dry patterns the hackle is tied on by tip but when usng two stem it is easier to start a good flow by do just the opposite.
After you tie the stems in take you finger and lift the tag section and bring back on itself and give it a couple wraps. This will make for a strong durable fly by locking in the materials. Next cut and prepare your hackle tips, they should be 1.50x the size of the gap. Tie the tips in foraward first.
Once secured bring back and tie down right in the middle of you blank shank.
When you start to hackle you fly it will bring you wing forward again setting the upright and proper. Take your hackle stem and begin to wrap forward making sure the stem is tight to the shank. It should only take three wrap in back.
As you can see in the picture the wing is stood bcak upright and we know it is locked in place. Now finish, should take two to three wrap forward to complete. Tie down the stem and trim.
Now until you know how to whip finish, which we will get too, use a half-hitch, take you finger and create a loop that is over it self.
bring it down you finger onto the head.
Pull tight and repeat about six times, then apply a very small drop of head ceament.
The finished product should look better then this. |
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