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Nowak’s Transitional Drake SBS

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B.C. tyer Trevor Nowaks pattern; body construction seems to have been borrowed from some of those mid-50s Michigan drake/mayflies. Tied here as a green drake; change color/size to meet your needs

 

hook - Maruto 2312 #10

thread - UTC 140 olive

tail - pheasant tail

body - elk hair dyed olive

wing - Congo Hair Baitfish Grey

hackle - grizzly/olive

head - elk hair dyed olive

 

Mash barb/start thread at 2/3 mark; wrap to point above barb

 

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Measure (hook length) some p/t fibers; tie in/trim

 

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Clean, stack, measure (tips gap width past bend) a clump of elk hair

 

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Tie in, spiral wrap to point above barb; return to tie-in, continue to eye

 

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Tie in a clump of CH; divide with crossing wraps

 

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Prep hackles, tie in at eye; wrap to wing and back, tie off/trim

 

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Pull elk hair butts back, create thread dam

 

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Whip finish, SHHAN, trim head, wings, underside of hackle (replaced the bulb in the right-side lamp with a daylight LED; much happier with the last 3 pics)

 

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Regards,

Scott

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