Johnny Utah
You're no daisy
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The Galloup's cripple
Bend your hook shank like so. Do it with your jaws of your vise open. Put a nice even bend in it. Dont put a tight bend. |
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Get yourself some hackle fibers, take note of the way they naturally curved. Keep them in order. |
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Measure the tales, they should be equal to the hook shank length. Take one turn over the cluster and one turn under, then a turn over. This will splay the tails and raise them up. |
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Dub the abdomen. The trick here is to use as least amount of dub as possible. You want the olive thread to bleed through when wet. |
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Tie in a length of Z-lon for the wing. Tie in on like you would spinner wings. You only 1 figure 8 wrap to hold it. Wrap tight. |
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Select a hackle that is 2x larger than you would normal use for the size your tying. I am tying a #16 here. So i have a size 12 hackle. Tie in on top of the hook shank. Good side up. |
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Trim your hackle stem away, and make a nice neat small head. whip finish. Trim the thread |
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Trim all the hackle from the bottom of the fly. Nice and close. I have had picky trout refuse a fly because of barbs left from the hackle being trimmed. So get it all the way down. |
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You can once the inital trim is done, model your wing. Its not really necessary, but i like to think it makes a difference. The fly is complete. |
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The fly "in the film" You can see the thread has bleed through. I find this color is a very close match for the bwos in western nj and eastern pa area. |
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