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Tying Speys with All New Colors |
Text & images by Bob Blumreich |
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Polar Shrimp Variation |
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Hook | any steelhead/salmon model |
Body | hot orange SLF or similar |
Rib | oval gold tinsel |
Hackle | red tipped-orange marabo |
Throat | red dyed mallard flank |
Wing | narrow strips of white goose |
Head | red |
HINTS:
A right handed tyer will strip the
left side of the body hackle before tying in by the tip. Wrap the hackle close behind the rib, from the 2nd or 3rd turn of tinsel. This depends on how dense the tyer wants the finished fly. Use dubbing needle to pick thru the hackle barbs while wrapping the counter rib. The wire is wound in the opposite direction to the rib & hackle, in order to bind down the hackle stem, & reinforce it against bite-thru's. Throat hackles are usually two turns of doubled feather,(duck flank, guinea, schlappen,etc), that has been tyed in by the tip. Allow the wings to set slightly down on the sides, in order to keep a low profile. Use of a cautery burner permits close trimming of butts, without disturbing the wing's position. See your Opthamologist. |
Tight Ties!