Post by tynetraveller on Apr 19, 2007 13:42:55 GMT
This is my fly swap 4 fly, whilst tying I thought I would do a basic step-by-step.
It is a Greenlander variant. It is a variant because the head should be green but I prefer black, and I don't have any yellow hair ( wing one should be yellow)
This one is tied on a size 7 salar. It is a big fly for the hook size due to the long and voluminous wing.
To start, take a silver salar hook and offer up black thread. The finer the better- 6/0 maximum, 8/0 if you are confident, 10/0 if you are really good. Create a small butt using fine silver wire or as I am using oval tinsel ( You need to cut a long piece- approx. 15cm). This should be tied in-line with or slightly behind the hook points. Try to wrap several turns on top of one another in the middle of the butt to create a raised bump. This will force the tail up in the air when it is tied in. Tie off the wire at the front of the butt but do not cut the excess off- Tuck it back out of the way for now.
Cut a length of hackle fibres from the webby part of a bright yellow large hackle- I use schlappen. Make sure the tips are level and tie them in so that they extend well beyond the bend. Loosely cover the excess material so that it lays flat along the shank.
Wrap silver tinsel or silver holo tinsel approx 1/3rd up the shank and tie off. Then dub a thin body of green dubbing- This is glistle sparkle dubbing- for another third. Be sure to leave lots of space in front of the eye- There is a lot of stuff to go on yet..
tie in a grizzle or badger cock hackle and palmer it back all the way to the butt in close turns. Then use the excess wire from the butt to wind back up in the oppostie direction to the top and tie off and trim excess.
Now its time for the wings. First cut a piece of fox or templedog in yellow or light green and remove any under fur by brushing it or pulling at the bottom of the hair with one hand whilst holding the tips firmly in the other. Tie it in with the tips extending just past the hook bends. Make sure that the hair is spread at the tying in point so that it wraps around both sides of the shank and creates a wide spread of hair as below.
Make sure that the hair is secured with just a few turns of thread and the excess is trimmed very neatly close to the thread wraps. From now on bulky thread wraps are our enemy. Tie in a few strands of flash material that extend jsut past the wing by a few millimetres.
Tie in a bunch of dark green hair that extends slightly further than the first wing. Again add a few strands of flash.
Measure a grizzle/badger hackle for size, tie in tip first and double two or three turns to form a front hackle. Then tie in a wing of black hair. This should be slightly longer then the last and so fine that it is like a thin, see-through veil over the green. Again make sure you do not use a single turn of the thread that you do not have to- we are going for as small a head as possible now
Tie in two jungle cock feathers as cheeks- These should be angling upwards and following the line of the black meeting the green in the wing. Finally add two or three peacock herl strands that reach millimetres longer than the black wing. Whip finish in a few thread turns as possible and varnish away..
The finished article.
It is a long winded fly- Just explaining it takes a while! I am starting to wish I had chosen a silver stoat for the fly swap!
Cheers, Simon
It is a Greenlander variant. It is a variant because the head should be green but I prefer black, and I don't have any yellow hair ( wing one should be yellow)
This one is tied on a size 7 salar. It is a big fly for the hook size due to the long and voluminous wing.
To start, take a silver salar hook and offer up black thread. The finer the better- 6/0 maximum, 8/0 if you are confident, 10/0 if you are really good. Create a small butt using fine silver wire or as I am using oval tinsel ( You need to cut a long piece- approx. 15cm). This should be tied in-line with or slightly behind the hook points. Try to wrap several turns on top of one another in the middle of the butt to create a raised bump. This will force the tail up in the air when it is tied in. Tie off the wire at the front of the butt but do not cut the excess off- Tuck it back out of the way for now.
Cut a length of hackle fibres from the webby part of a bright yellow large hackle- I use schlappen. Make sure the tips are level and tie them in so that they extend well beyond the bend. Loosely cover the excess material so that it lays flat along the shank.
Wrap silver tinsel or silver holo tinsel approx 1/3rd up the shank and tie off. Then dub a thin body of green dubbing- This is glistle sparkle dubbing- for another third. Be sure to leave lots of space in front of the eye- There is a lot of stuff to go on yet..
tie in a grizzle or badger cock hackle and palmer it back all the way to the butt in close turns. Then use the excess wire from the butt to wind back up in the oppostie direction to the top and tie off and trim excess.
Now its time for the wings. First cut a piece of fox or templedog in yellow or light green and remove any under fur by brushing it or pulling at the bottom of the hair with one hand whilst holding the tips firmly in the other. Tie it in with the tips extending just past the hook bends. Make sure that the hair is spread at the tying in point so that it wraps around both sides of the shank and creates a wide spread of hair as below.
Make sure that the hair is secured with just a few turns of thread and the excess is trimmed very neatly close to the thread wraps. From now on bulky thread wraps are our enemy. Tie in a few strands of flash material that extend jsut past the wing by a few millimetres.
Tie in a bunch of dark green hair that extends slightly further than the first wing. Again add a few strands of flash.
Measure a grizzle/badger hackle for size, tie in tip first and double two or three turns to form a front hackle. Then tie in a wing of black hair. This should be slightly longer then the last and so fine that it is like a thin, see-through veil over the green. Again make sure you do not use a single turn of the thread that you do not have to- we are going for as small a head as possible now
Tie in two jungle cock feathers as cheeks- These should be angling upwards and following the line of the black meeting the green in the wing. Finally add two or three peacock herl strands that reach millimetres longer than the black wing. Whip finish in a few thread turns as possible and varnish away..
The finished article.
It is a long winded fly- Just explaining it takes a while! I am starting to wish I had chosen a silver stoat for the fly swap!
Cheers, Simon
thank you 
, you should try tying some Irish Shimps, although you could do with some samples for ref first ;D
, we wouldn't want that 
but then again we are all great ;D
