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Orange Twist
Stream flies for sea trout and steelhead
An oldie pattern from GFF
By Martin Joergensen
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This fly used to be a twist fly like the yellow Twist of Lemon, but it changed and eventually lost the typical twisted body. It has a normal tinsel body and a thorax of peacock herl, but looks much like the Twist of Lemon. 
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| Hook
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6-2 Bartleet salmon fly hook
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The tinsel body, butt and tag
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| Thread
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Red, orange or black
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| Tag
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Narrow flat silver tinsel
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| Butt
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Red wool
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| Rib
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Oval silver tinsel
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| Body
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Flat silver tinsel
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| Thorax
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Peacock herl
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| Hackle
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Orange hen hackle
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| Head
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Red, orange or black
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- Cover the hook shank with a smooth layer of thread. Let the thread hang down to reach the hook point
- Tie in a strip of narrow silver tinsel and wind it to reach a point above the point of the barb and back
- Tie down and cut surplus
- Tie in a strip of gold tinsel for the rib
- Cover the tying in point with redd wool
- Wind the thread forwards, form a smooth foundation of thread for the body
- Tie in the silver tinsel
- Wind it to the tag and back in touching turns
- Cut surplus
- Tie in 5 strands of peacock herl
- Wind thread forwards
- Form a thick thorax from the peacock herl
- Tie in an orange hackle, tip first and hackle stem upwards
- Wind the hackle clockwise in wet fly style, folding it over and stroking barbs to the rear of the hook
- 2-3 turns will suffice depending on the hackle
- Tie down and cut surplus
- Form a nice, small head from tying thread
- Whip finish and varnish
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Submitted April 7th 2009
i really like this fly ,simple and i bet effective ,i look forward to using it during the summer nights on my local.
i will let you know how i get on with it.