Step by step .

(1) Wind on the tying silk
(2) Tie in a length of spanflex for the body.
(3) Apply some vanish to the tying silk on the hook shank
(4 ) Wind the spanflex up the hook shank in touching turns stopping about a third of the way .
(5) Tie in a bunch of knotted legs and divide them .
(6) Select two nice well marked Cree hackle tips for the wings.
(7) Tie in the hackle tips and divide them by going between them with the tying thread.
(8) Tie in a good quality Cree cock hackle.
(9) Wind the hackle about four or five turns tie in and Whip finish and varnish the head .

Thanks for making the effort Freelander, that's a tidy fly that no doubt work's a treat!

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SpottyHors Fly Fishers

That's a cracking tie.
Only thing I would change is to have all the legs trailing.

very nice fly well done.

Great tutorial and nice fly

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Save the Softmouth
The ancient noble trout of Montenegro

I like it !!

A great looking daddy pattern

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FishKeep

Superb SBS freelander!

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"Angling may be said to be so like mathematics in that it can never be fully understood" - Izaak Walton

Thats a catcher for sure, nice pattern.

Jonesy

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To some wives, a fishing rod is a pole with a worm at both ends.

Good work there.
I have often found that a selectively feeding trout can be thrown off balance by dropping a daddy right on its nose.

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