Needle Fly: stonefly pattern

HT's FLY PATTERNS


Needle Fly	Materials
	Hook: Partridge, Mike Weaver Arrowpoint Barbless Dry Fly, #16 Silk/Thread: Black Body: Medium silver tinsel Wing: Hen pheasant thorax Hackle: black hen hackle Tail: Hen pheasant thorax

Needle Fly

Materials

Hook:

Partridge, Mike Weaver Arrowpoint
Barbless Dry Fly, #16

Silk/Thread:

Black

Body:

Medium silver tinsel

Wing:

Hen pheasant thorax

Hackle:

black hen hackle

Tail:

Hen pheasant thorax

Tying Method

Whip silk down shank of hook toward bend, starting at 1/8 distance from eye.
Tie in small bunch of fibres from hen pheasant thorax. Keep tail short
Tie in tinsel, whip silk forward to 1/4 distance from eye.
Wind tinsel to make body with 1/3 overlaps. Tie in.
Tie in a few fibres of black hackle as a throat.
Tie in hen pheasant thorax on top of hook behind eye, sloping back low over body. When extended back it should reach no farther back than end of tail.
Tie off with whip finish behind eye. Clear or black varnish.