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Tie in a Dahlberg Diver style tail at the bend of the hook.
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| B)
When you look at the fly from above the Woolly Bugger
type tail with the hackles on each side should look symmetrical like
this.
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| C)
The body of the fly is made of spun deer hair that will
later be trimmed into shape.
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D)
- Tie, spin and stack successive bunches of spun deer hair along the
hook shank.
- Each time you tie a bunch of deer hair in press it
back toward the bend of the hook. The tighter the deer hair is stacked
against the previous bunch of deer hair the more buoyant will be the
finished fly.
- If you interpose deer hair of a different colour you
can build a banded or patterned fly.
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E)
- On this fly I used two bunches of yellow followed by
one bunch of brown repeated three times. A total of nine bunches of
deer hair.
- When the tightly stacked deer hair reaches the eye of
the hook tie your thread off.
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F)
- Trim the excess thread.
- Using a sharp blade or a sharp pair of scissors trim
the deer hair to shape. On this fly I have trimmed the leading deer
hair into a cone shape that finishes half way through the first bunch
of contrasting deer hair that was tied in.
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G)
- The last third of the deer hair has been trimmed into
a neat collar. The radius of the collar is the same as the gape of the
hook.
- Apply head cement to the thread and to the tightly
trimmed front section of the deer hair.
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