Here’s proof that a fly doesn’t have to be complicated to tie to be a good fish catcher. This is Bob Wyatt’s dirty duster and they don’t come much easier to tie than this.
Materials:
Hook – Kamasan B100N in sizes 12 – 18
Thread – Grey 8/0
Dubbing – Fly Rite extra fine poly No 26 Adams grey
Hackle – silver badger
Tie on thread and wind in touching turns well round the bend.
If you hold the tag end of the thread up as you wind it will help it to lie in tight touching turns.
Wind on a thin spindle of dubbing tapering outwards away from the hook so that it will form a tapered body
Wind the dubbing up the body, keeping it slim
Stop leaving enough room for several turns of the hackle
Strip the fluff from the base of a silver badger hackle
Tie in with the upper side facing you
Take the hackle in the hackle pliers and wind in touching turns each one just in front of the last
Stop leaving enough room for the head, tie off and snip off the hackle tip
Form a small head and whip finish
Take your scissors and trim off all the hackle points below the hook shank so the body will sit in the water
And that's it
The view from above
