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Current Tags for This Pattern
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Black /
Dubbing /
Partridge /
peacock herl /
Red /
Seal /
Soft Hackle /
Tinsel /
PRP Fly (Soft Hackle)
tied by letumgoFly Type: Wet,
Target Species: Panfish,
Trout,
Recommended Region: Northeast US,
Northwest US,
Central US,
Western Canada,
Eastern Canada,
Central Canada,
Material List:
Hook - Mustad Model 3906 / Size 6
Thread - Black UNI-Thread (6/0)
Underbody and Tag - Silver Holographic Tinsel
Rear Body - Kreinik Sole Platte Silk (Red) wrapped over the silver tinsel
Wing Case Bubble - Single strand of silver holographic tinsle pulled over the back
Hackle - Partridge Body Feather
Front Body - Peacock Herl (4 or 5 strands reinforced with a dubbing loop)
Head - Black tying thread sealed with head cement
Tying Instructions: - Start the tying thread at the mid point of the hook.
- Tye in the silver tinsel at the midpoint of the hook.
- Wrap the tinsel back to the rear of the hook and forward to the tying thread. Tye off and cut of tinsel tag.
- Tye in the silk at the midpoint. Wrap the silk towards the back of the fly, leaving a small silver tag at the back of the fly. Wrap the silk forward to the tying thread and tye off.
- Tye in a single strand of silver holographic tinsel along the top of the hook (front half only). This will later be pulled over the back of the thorax to simulate a bubble of a hatching insect).
- Run the tying thread forward to the eye of the hook and tye in a single partridge body hackle. The feather should be pointing out over the eye of the hook.
- Tye in four or five strands of peacock herl by the tips.
- Run the tying thread back to the midpoint. Form a dubbing loop with the tying thread. Twist the peacock herl around the tying thread and wind it forward towards the eye of the hook. Leave room roughly one eye length gap for the hackle and head of the fly. Tye off the herl and clip off the ends.
- Pull the strand of silver holographic flash forward over the back of the thorax. Tye off and clip excess.
- Clip the end of the partridge hackle in a hackle pliers and fold the fibers of the hackle. Wind two or three turns of hackle back towards the tying thread.
- Wind the tying thread through the hackle (wiggle it back and forth so the fibers are not matted down). Clip off the excess tip of the hackle.
- Pull back the hackle fibers with your thumb and fore fingers and form the head. Wrap the tying thread over the base of the fibers to make them sweep backwards and strengthen the stem of the feather.
NOTE - If you want to add to the durability of the fly, you can coat the silk body with a tin coat of Superglue. The silk turns translucent and smooth as glass. The silk part of the fly in the upper right hand corner was coated with Superglue. The other shiny ones were coated with head cement (the silk does not seem to look as shiny or translucent with the head cement).
Presentation Tips: Down and across - drag free drift.
