and here is the same fly wet
Redneck Killer Bug (aka - Garden Hackle)
Hook - Mustad Model 37160 (Size 6)
Thread 1 (underbody) - 3/0 UNI-Thread (White)
Body - Berroco Ultra Alpaca Fine Yarn (Color #1214) - Chadwick 477 Sub
Rib - UTC Ultra Wire (Size Small/Copper)
Thread 2 - 8/0 UNI-Thread (Light Cahill)
Collar - Mike Valla Tups Blend (Pale Pink Wool Blend)
Mount the hook in the vice and then attach the white tying thread. The white underbody is intended to lighten the coloration of the fly when it gets wet. Wrap the thread back to the middle and forward to the eye of the hook. By folding the yarn in half, you are tying in two parallel strands of yarn in the front section of the fly. This helps broaden this front and to get a more realistic profile for the finished earthworm.
Tye in the piece of wool yarn, roughly 10" long. When you tye it in, leave roughly 1" hanging out over the eye of the hook.
Fold the yarn back and then wrap the thread back to the middle of the hook.
Attach the piece of copper wire and then wind the tying thread back towards the bend, in close touching turns. You are trying to form a smooth underbody.
It is helpful to flip the hook over when tying the back half of the pattern. It is easier to work the tying thread around the point of the hook.
Wind the yarn forward in close touching turns.
Wind the copper wire forward in open turns for form a rib and segment the body. Then whip finish the head.
Color the head with a Sharpie marker to make it blend in with the body.
The fly would be perfectly fishable at this point, but the next steps add a bit more realism. (Okay. Fine, this is just "gilding the lilly.)
Wax and attach the Light Cahil thread slightly forward of the middle of the body.
Dub the thread and wrap the center section of the fly.
Wrap the whip finish back thru the dubbing.
