In a message dated 4/25/2006 14:11:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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writes:
Chuck:
Let's keep it simple, tie a modified woolly bugger.
I prefer to have the barb up. Tie in dumbbell eyes on the top
of the shank in front of the hook eye leave a space between them and the hook
eye to tie off materials.
Tie in two pieces of marabou on the top of the shank above the hook
point. You can split them or tie them in so they form a V. Now tie
in medium chenille, olive or if you can get it variegated chenille,
olive/brown. You can tie it in front of the "claws" or on top of them
behind the split. If you tie the chenille in front, figure 8 it around
the marabou. Tie in some olive or olive grizzly saddle hackle at the
same spot. Now wrap the chenille halfway down the shank, wrap it back up
to the claws then back down to the middle. The next step can be either
simple or complicated. The simple way. Wrap the chenille forward
to the eyes. Figure 8 the eyes with it and tie it off behind the hook
eye. Then wrap the saddle hackle forward, as you wrap stroke the feathers
toward the back. to the hook eye, tie off and trim excess. Build a bit
of a thread head, and finish. Take your scissors and trim the hackle
even with the chenille on the top and bottom and on the sides half way up
the hook. You're done
Complicated, wrap the chenille halfway down the shank, then back, then
forward to the middle. Make a couple of wraps to hold chenille, then
wrap hackle through chenille, wrap down on shank, and trim excess.
Finish wrapping chenille toward eye, figure 8 dumbbell eyes and tie off
chenille. Trim hackle top and bottom.
Jerry
C
"All things considered, I'd rather be in
Philadelphia."
