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Index => Fly Tying => Topic started by: Sandy Nelson on 07/01/2009 at 10:43

Title: The Waterhen Bloa
Post by: Sandy Nelson on 07/01/2009 at 10:43
Mike asked me to do a step by step for this, my favorite fly :z16

More than happy, this is my early season one for the Large Dark Olive

Hook: Partridge SLD size 12-16
Thread: pearsalls no.5 silk
Body: a mist of muskrat fur
Hackle: a dark greenish sheen feather from the outside of a moorhens wing

You can use Mole to make the body darker, and you can use The inside feather from the wing to make the hackle lighter, covering you for all the olives in various sizes :z16

Step one select an appropriate feather.

(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/selectafeather.jpg)

Then strip the flue from its base

(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/stripflue.jpg)

Set a hook in the vice, in this case a size12

(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/sethook.jpg)

Tie in the hackle by the tip

(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/tieinhackle.jpg)

Remove the tip and wind down to level with the point of the hook, back off three turns.

(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/windthread.jpg)

Apply some wax to the thread

(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/applysomewax.jpg)

Make sure the wax is enough to coat the thread without lumps

(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/waxapplied.jpg)

Touch the dubbing onto the thread, to form a very light mist

(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/mistofdubbing.jpg)

Start the body with the 3 turns down to the hook point and then in touching turns back up to where you snipped off the hackle tip

(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/body.jpg)

Wind the hackle from the front through 3 turns making sure the fibres do not trap each other, back towards the thread.

(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/hackle.jpg)

Tie off the hackle with 2-3 turns and snip off waste as close to the hook as possible

(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/tieoffhackle.jpg)

Now wind the thread through the hackle with almost touching turns making sure not to trap any fibres. (this makes the fibres stand out perpendicular to the hook and provides a lot of toughness to the delicate hackle)

(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/throughhackle.jpg)

Finish the fly with a small head and a whip finish

(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/finished.jpg)
 

:z18

Sandy










Title: Re: The Waterhen Bloa
Post by: Cameron deBoth on 07/01/2009 at 11:32
That indeed looks like a great fly.

Now here's a question. Anyone goign to the fly tying at Orvis tonight fancy bringing me a few feathers? I can take something in exchange
Title: Re: The Waterhen Bloa
Post by: Hamish Young on 07/01/2009 at 15:51
Quote from: luckyshot66 on 07/01/2009 at 11:32
That indeed looks like a great fly.

Now here's a question. Anyone goign to the fly tying at Orvis tonight fancy bringing me a few feathers? I can take something in exchange

Buy them in the shop  :wink
Title: Re: The Waterhen Bloa
Post by: Cameron deBoth on 07/01/2009 at 15:53
Quote from: Hamish on 07/01/2009 at 15:51
Buy them in the shop  :wink

THAT WAS MY 2ND PLAN :D