Cheapskate Heron

The Cheapskate Heron is a poor man's Spey fly.

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1. Start the thread where the front end of the floss tag will be.
2. Wind the thread in smooth touching turns to above the tip of the hook
3. Tie in the flat tinsel and wind four touching turns to the rear and four back again.
4. Tie off the tinsel and cut surplus
5. Wind the thread forwards in close, smooth turns to its starting point
6. Tie in the orange floss
7. Wind the floss to the rear to touch the tag and back again in smooth touching turns
8. Tie down the floss and cut surplus
9. ie in a small red G.P. body feather as tail
10. Tie in the flat tinsel ribbing
11. Dub the body to a slim, tapered shape with black wool or yarn
12. Wind the ribbing forwards in 5 open turns
13. Tie down the ribbing and cut surplus
    

14. Prepare two or three short sections of heron as shown on the picture above
    

15. Tie in the sections under the hook shank just in front of the body. The hackle should reach approx. a shank length behind the hook.
16. Trim off stem pieces
17. Prepare a section of a medium size guinea fowl feather in the same way
18. Tie in the guinea fowl as a throat hackle reaching mid shank. Trim off stem
19. Prepare two sections of bronze mallard for wings
20. Set the mallard back to back on each side of the shank just in front of the body
21. catch with a loose loop, pinch and draw tight
22. Cut the butts
23. Form a smooth tapered head
24. Whip finish and cut thread
25. Varnish

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