Many First Impressions (multi spectrum jingler)
Hook - Daiichi Model 1740 / Size 12 (Turned Up Eye wet nymph hook - 2X-Heavy)
Thread - 8/0 UNI-Thread (Rusty Dun)
Collar Hackle - Hungarian Partridge (Dyed Dark Blue Dun)
Thorax Hackle - Whiting High & Dry Hackle (Grizzly Dyed Tan)
Tag/Rib - Fine Copper Wire
Body - Hares Mask Dubbing (Dyed in Picric Acid)
Head - Tying thread coated in SHHAN clear nail polish
This pattern is intended to be a fly with a wide spectrum of natural colors and tones. I am hoping fish will be able to see whatever color they are looking for in the fly (in many buggy colors / olive-gray-tan-dark blue dun). Hopefully making a good impression, in more ways than one.
PHOTOS OF THE TYING SEQUENCE:
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Finished Fly
------ DETAILED TYING SEQUENCE ------
STEP ONE (1):
Mount the hook in vice, and attach your tying thread with five firm wraps. Trim off the tag end.
Tye in a prepared partridge hackle and the grizzly body hackle (both feathers should hang out over the eye of the hook).
Tye on a piece of fine copper wire, and wrap the thread back to the barb of the hook.
STEP TWO (2):
Dub the tying thread and then wrap forward towards the eye of the hook, forming a slender tapered body. Stop roughly ¼ of the shank length away from the eye of the hook. This will leave room for the wire rib to be tyed in and to form the thorax.
Wrap the copper wire back towards the bend of the hook, in three tightly touching turns. (This will help form a small wire tag, at the back end of the fly.) Then wrap the wire forward in four or five open spiral wraps. This will form the ribs the fly.
STEP THREE (3):
-Secure the wire with three firm thread wraps, then “helicopter” the wire until it breaks off cleanly under the thread wraps.
STEP FOUR (4):
-Dub the tying thread, and wrap backwards forming the thorax region of the fly. Stop just a little bit forward of the midpoint of the shank.
STEP FIVE (5):
-Wrap the grizzly hackle backwards over the thorax of the fly.
Capture the hackle with one wrap of tying thread, then continue wrapping the thread forward thru the hackle. Make sure you keep your thread wraps firm, and wiggle the thread slightly as your wrap forward. This helps minimize the number of hackle fibers that get trapped, when counter wrapping the thread.
STEP SIX (6):
-Trim off the excess hackle.
-Pull the tying thread back out of the way. I like to hang the thread over the little spring on the stem of the vice. This step helps keep the tying thread out of the way, when wrapping the hackle collar.
STEP SEVEN (7):
- Grasp the tip of the hackle feather with hackle pliers, gently fold the fibers to one side, then wrap back towards the thorax of the fly. Two or three wraps of partridge will be plenty.
- Wrap the tying thread forward thru the partridge hackle, and secure with several tight thread wraps.
- Trim off the partridge hackle.
STEP EIGHT (8):
-Form a neat thread head, whip finish, and trim off the thread.
-Add a small drop of Sally Hansen’s clear nail polish (“Dries Instantly” works nicely as a head cement).
