This is my first ever SBS so please cut me a little slack. This is a pattern I devised for a Sedgehog swap organised by Greenock on this forum back in the Spring. It's been one of those 'magic' flies for me, out-fishing all the other dries, and bringing fish up when there's nothing rising. It has worked on fresh stockies, grown-on Rainbows and even the odd wild Brownie.
Hook: Grip 11011BL size 12 or 14 or Tiemco 103BL
Tag: Glo-brite Floss, Green no.12 (plus 2mm green glass bead)
Thread: Uni Brown or Black (6/0 0r 8/0)
Wing: Deer Hair, tied in three bunches.
Underwing: Sparklemet Pearl/Flashabou
Body: Seal's Fur, light olive.
Thorax: Seal's fur, brown.
The novelty with this fly is the 2mm glass seed bead. My thinking was it would mimic the adult female laying eggs. It also helps the fly sit better in the water and acts as a trigger point. I glue these on using Zap-a-Gap over a tag of Glo-brite.
I invert the fly when messing with superglue, and put a piece of paper over the pedestal to keep the vice clean.
Do a batch and allow to dry before starting to tie in the deer hair.
The first bunch of deer hair, with the tips aligned in a stacker, is quite sparse. As always, remove any under fur before stacking. Tie it close enough to the bead so that it flares out slightly around it. Trim off the waste ends and tie in.
Add a couple of short pieces of fine flash, double it back on itself and tie down. Trim to match length of deer hair or slightly longer.
Dub some olive (or any colour to match the sedges in your area) seal's fur to build up the body, hiding the thread tying in the deer hair ends. Just 3mm or so sweeping back any long hairs.
Then add in another, larger bunch of deer hair, and repeat the tying in and dubbing process.
Then add the final bunch of deer hair, leaving a few millimetres spare behind the eye to build the head. Try to keep all the hair above the hook by pinching it tight when tying in. We are not looking to spin the hair like a muddler head.
Dub the thorax with brown seal's fur, the 'leggier' the better. Sweep back and tie in.
Cut two Elk hairs of similar size and shape and line the points up so that any curve is upwards and outwards. Tie in with a pinch loop and another turn then do any last alignment before trimming off the waste and building up the head (hopefully a bit neater than mine!).
Whip finish and a drop of head varnish and the fly is complete. You may want to trim any over-long seal's fur and pick out the thorax a bit.
Trout's Eye view:
Tie a few, they work, they get chewed and your mate will want one.
I hope they work for you.
SharkeyP
The Egg Hog (a dry Sedge pattern)
) ones to suspend nymphs under. Might try some of these too though 
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