Tying Instructions

1. Tie on about 1/8 inch back of the eye, wrap one layer
back to even with the barb.
2. Tie on tail of 3 Bucktail hairs, extending about 1 inch to the rear.
3. Laying foam on top of hook, catch the rear end of it with thread, tying
with 3 or 4 wraps to secure and flatten just the tip of it.
4. Roughen edges of the Organza strip by pulling it through pinched fingers
both ways, firm & gentle.
5. Lay the Organza on top of the hook, leaving end extending slightly longer
than the bucktail, tying on, then bending long end back and tying over the
scant fold with a couple of tight wraps. Leave long end hanging over tail
for now.
6. Holding the foam strip in place on top of the hook, (and bucktail
underneath it) take 3 or 4 wraps of thread forward over it, snug, but not
tight. Then 2 or 3 wraps tight about where you initially started the
thread near eye. Lift the strip and tie a few wraps forward and back, as
few as you can to get the post standing. Trim off the bucktail ends.
7. Tie in the Grizzly Hackle feather by the butt end, just barely ahead of
the post.
8. Hold the Organza tail straight back as you start to palmer wrap the
Organza strip forward over the foam. Palmer the Organza fairly close and
tightly, also taking wraps under and once ahead of post and hackle. Secure
with 3 wraps of thread, then lift Organza stip alongside of the foam post.
9. Wrap hackle, parachute style, once around both the foam post & Organza,
then pull Organza back toward tail, and wrap only foam post with hackle once
or twice more. Tie off hackle ahead of post and trim off excess.
10. Whip finish (you will need to hold back the hackle when you do this).
Trim off foam post to length. Cut off upper strip of Organza at body length
to rear. Cut off tailing end of Organza strip just a bit shorter than the
bucktail hairs.
11. Use a bodkin or your fingernails to pick out all of the loose short
cross fibers from the Organza tail & wing (you can save these to use in
dubbing mixes). Trim off errant fibers of Organza from under body of fly.
12. Randomly dap fly body and hackle with permanent marker (yellow for this
example).
13.Cement with Flex-Loc along the entire body from the bottom, and at whip
finished head.

How to Fish

 

First, this fly is more of an Emerger than a regular Dry...
Floats very low in the surface film, and may even suspend below the surface
if it gets quite wet...will dry out very fast & easily as most components
are synthetic materials.
Float it quietly on the current, or twitch gently and intermittently on
still waters...
For trout, sunfish, crappies, and smallmouth bass.