The Dirty White
The light gray and white shades has earned this fly its name
Hackling a tube fly with mallard is a great way of finishing it. The long mallard fibers will not only give it a great speckled veil, but also gather the rest of the fly in the water when the fibers sweep along the body and wing of the fly.
The Dirty White uses discrete and light colors combined with a natural light gray mallard front hackle to obtain a subdued but still nice appearance. The combination of yellow, white and light gray makes it a fine fly for bright conditions in clear water.
Danish fly tyer Ken Bonde Larsen has again utilized the winging technique where the wing is tied in in sections separated by flash. Since we want a fly, which is slender and torpedo-shaped there is no hackle between the sections to lift the wing, just a body hackle to add some volume to the rear of the fly.
This fly has a silver metal cone mounted, but you can omit that and tie a plain head or substitute it for a plastic cone or dish where weight is not allowed.
About The Dirty White
| Type | Tube fly |
| Originator | Ken Bonde Larsen |
| Year of origin | 2008 |
| Difficulty | Medium |
| Target species | Atlantic salmon (sea run) Steelhead (sea run) |
Materials
| Tube | Half inch clear tube with inner tube (FITS) |
| Thread | White |
| Tail | Pale yellow Antron |
| Rib | Oval silver tinsel |
| Tag | Flat silver tinsel |
| Body | Silver flash dubbing |
| Body hackle | Badger |
| Wing flash | Pale yellow twinkle flash |
| First wing section | Yellow Arctic fox |
| Wing flash | Silver Angel Hair |
| Second wing section | Silver fox - gray tipped |
| Front hackle | Mallard, natural |
| Cone | Flat silver dish |
Tying instructions
See the pictures below
Submitted September 29th 2009
Martin,
This site is most interesting with the Dirty White fly pattern shown here. I would like to try this pattern on some of the rivers in Michigan where Trout, Salmon, and Steelhead are plentiful. I have only been fly fishing since March and I am hooked. By any chance do you sell these flies? Are they sold from any particular Web site?
Best Regards,
Lorenzo Swanson
South Holland, Illinois