| Hook | Mustad 9672 or equivalent, size 8 | |
| Thread | Brown | |
| Weight | 16 turns of .02" diameter lead wire | |
| Tail | Tan marabou | |
| Body | Tan Mohair yarn |
Tying Pointers
 | Make sure to tie a thick marabou tail using good quality marabou. "Wooly bugger" marabou works best because it has fairly thick fibers all the way to the tips. It is difficult to create a thick enough tail if your marabou has very thin tips. |
| The body must be very fuzzy. The completed fly should look shaggy, with a few mohair fibers long enough to reach the tip of the tail. Be careful to avoid binding down these long mohair fibers when you wrap the yarn. Tease the fibers away from the hook shank as you wrap, and you won't have to go back later to "tease out" the body to make it fuzzy. You want a fly that has a "halo" of long mohair fibers trailing back along the body. |
Fishing Tips
| The innovator, Mike Kruse< suggests fishing this fly as a nymph by casting upstream and dead drifting under a strike indicator. |
| I have the best luck fishing this fly by making a slow strip retrieve. |