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Fly of the Month

Yellow Hair Dear Head

Type of fly:
Streamer
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Tied By:
Fred Bader
Hook:
Mustad 79580
Thread:
Black 0/6
Tag:
Golden Dubbing
Tail:
Cock Pheasant Tail Fibres
Body:
Golden Dubbing
Rib:
Fine Copper Wire
Head:
Yellow Deer Hair
Eyes:
Lead Hour Shaped (Micro)
Hackle:
Brown Hackle
Tying Instructions
  1. 1. Tie in Black thread at the bend of the hook.
  2. Twist on Golden dubbing onto thread and wind in tag.
  3. Tie in Pheasant Tail Fibres just past the tag.
  4. Tie in copperwire
  5. Twist on Golden dubbing onto thread and wind in body about 2/3's up the hook.
  6. Now wrap copper wire over body and tie off.
  7. Tie in Brown Hackle with shinny side facing foward.
  8. Wrap Brown Hackle with wide turns down to tail and then back up body taking care not to trap to many hackle hairs.
  9. Secure a piece of Yellow Dear Hair and cut off about the size of a pencil diameter or just a little less and put into hair acker (tips first) stack this hair and remove. Gauge the wing so that the tips of the Yellow Dear Hair will come back to just above the bend of the hook. Tie in the Yellow Dear Hair with a few wraps of thread around the hook and hair. you can of course take a wrap around the hair and then wrap it to the hook and wrap around the hair. Either way makes it secure.
  10. Now hold up the front of the hair before you cut it off and take a few wraps under and up tight against the hair just behind the eye of the hook (wrapping the thread as as close to where the hair was wrapped down as possible. Now take your scissors and trim off the excess hair leaving a bunch of hair like a tassel on the front of the fly. This will form the head and should be even with the eye of the hook, (extended out to the front of the hook. Do not trim the Yellow Dear Hair tight against the wraps of thread that you have place there.
  11. Tie in hour shaped lead eyes just behind the hook eye.
  12. Whip and tie off.
  13. Cement the head.

Note:This Fly is made much like the Elk Hair Caddis but with different colors and a streamer hook. I made this fly for rushing currents in a river I fish for steelhead. ~ Fred

Fishing Instructions

For moving water, use a size 10 casting across and slightly upstream. Let the fly sink a bit, and quickly retrieve it. In slower sections of a river or stream 'swim' the fly just fast enough for the hair wing to impart movement.
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