Iron Blue Dun, dry fly pattern

HT's FLY PATTERNS


Iron Blue, copper variant	Materials
	Hook: Wide gape, Dry Fly, #14-18 Silk/Thread: Brown Body: Dubbing: Hare's Ear(only on #14 hooks) Rib: Fine oval copper tinsel Hackle: Iron Blue cock hackle Red cock hackle Tail whisks: 3-6 fibres from large red cock hackle

Iron Blue, copper variant

Materials

Hook:

Wide gape, Dry Fly, #14-18

Silk/Thread:

Brown

Body:

Dubbing: Hare's Ear(only on #14 hooks)

Rib:

Fine oval copper tinsel

Hackle:

Iron Blue cock hackle
Red cock hackle

Tail whisks:

3-6 fibres from large red cock hackle

Tying Method

Whip silk down shank of hook toward bend, starting at 1/8 distance from eye.
Tie in whisks and tinsel at beginning of bend. Whisks should extend from the hook by at least the length of the hook shank.
Apply dubbing (in the case of larger flies only) and build thin body working forward to 1/4 distance from eye.
Tie in red hackle. Make 3-4 turns of the hackle, palmering toward tail.
Wind copper tinsel tightly twice round shank behind palmered red cock, then continue ribbing up the shank, trapping the hackle. Tie off the tinsel.
Tie in Blue cock hackle in front of red hackle, Allow 3 turns, mingling with the first turn of the red.
Tie off behind eye. Clear varnish.