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DRY FLIES

CRANE FLY
The Crane Fly is a member of the Diptera (true fly) family. Enough Crane Flies find their way onto the water on windy summer days to make this a useful prospecting pattern. It’s also large and visible enough to be used as a indicator fly with a second smaller dry or nymph behind or below it.

 

MATERIALS:

Hook  - Size 8-10 long shank
Silk - Brown
Body - Ginger or brown seals fur dubbing
Legs - Knotted pheasant tail or turkey wing fibres
Wings - Grizzly hackle tips
Abdomen  - Ginger or brown seals fur dubbing
Hackle - Ginger


A)

  1. Wind the thread in touching turns to the bend of the hook.
  2. Dub on a thin cigar shaped body along the back 2/3 of the hook shank.
  3. Tie in three legs on each side of the fly with the knots level with the back of the bend of the hook.
B)
  1. Tie in two matching hackle wing tips directly in front of the body with one on each side of the hook and facing backward at a 45 degree angle to the shank of the hook. When looking at the wings front on they should be symmetrical and only slightly separated.
  2. Dub on an abdomen of about the same thickness as the body from in front of the wing almost to the eye of the hook leaving enough room to build up a head for the fly.
  3. Tie in a slightly oversize hackle directly behind the eye of the hook.
C)
  1. Wrap the hackle 2 or 3 times, tie it off and trim the excess.
  2. Build up a neat head of thread using the head to force the hackle to slay slightly backward.
  3. Whip finish and varnish the head.
  

 
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