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| Fly recipe Hook: Natural Bend Hook (Dai Riki #270) Thread: Danville's Flymaster Plus Orange or Black Wing: Mallard and Krystal Flash Body: Orange or Black Foam Head: Elk or Deer Hair Legs: Sili Legs or Round Rubber Tying instructions: Step 1: Secure your hook in the vise and attach the thread to the hook just in front of the eye and wrap back half way on the hook. Step 2: Clip a 1 ½ - 2 inch section of float foam and cut at a 45 degree angle on one end of it. This is the end you are going to fasten down onto the hook. Step 3: Secure the foam section onto the hook by placing the 45 degree cut onto the hook and wrapping over the top of it. Step 4: Now after the foam is good and secure on the hook you will add your under wing of krystal flash. Trim off roughly 1 inch long section of roughly 10-15 strands of krystal flash and tie in with the krystal flash hanging out the back over top of your foam body. Then you will add the actual wings next. Step 5: You do this by taking single mallard feathers, stripping off the crummy sections of feathers off the bottom and placing 2 of them such that the feathers are curving outwards and away from the hook. You will place and position one feather on each side of the hook to act as fluttering wings on the salmon fly. Step 6: Take the thread all the way up to the eye of the hook. Now you will form your bullethead. To do this, trim off a chunk of elk or deer hair and clean it and prepare it for stacking. Now insert the hair into your stacker and stack it accordingly. Once the hair has been stacked remove the tips with your dominant hand from the stacker. Step 7: Once you have removed your hair from the stacker and are holding it in your dominant hand, you will trim off the butt ends of the hair to even them up. After doing this you will take that clump of hair and place it directly onto the eye of the hook (you should be positioning the eye of the hook directly in the center of your clump of hair. Step 8: Now that you have the clump of hair positioned on the hook, firmly grasp and transition the butts to your non-dominant hand, and with your dominant hand, bring the thread up and around the clump of hair 3-4 times before applying pressure to flare the hair out. Step 9: You should now have the hair secured onto the hook directly behind your eye, take the thread and cover the butts with thread and trim off any excess. Now position the thread directly in front of your wings and wet your fingers, and stroke all of the deer hair backwards, with your non-dominant hand. Once all of the hair is stroked back, make several gentle thread wraps over the hair, and then one really tight wrap. Your bullethead should be formed. Step 10: Add rubber legs onto the sides of your bullethead with the soft loop technique, one or 2 per side depending on your preference, then whip finish over the top and your are ready to apply zap-a-gap or cement over the bullethead. |
