Nick Thomas
Terrestrial
Easy
- Run on the tying thread at the eye and wind down the hook in touching turns.
- Catch in a length of bug yarn and tie down up the hook.
- Cut off two lengths of different coloured ultra-dry yarns comb the fibres out with a dubbing needle and catch in on top of the hook with the darker colour underneath. Tie down along the top of the hook.
- Wind the bug yarn forward to form the body, tie in and trim off the waste.
- Fold the ultra-dry yarn fibres forward to form a loop and secure with a couple of thread turns.
- Put a dubbing needle through the loop and apply tension to the fibres while pulling the ends to adjust the size and position of the wing.
- Lock the front end of the loop with further thread wraps and trim off the waste ends.
- Pull back the fibres of a partridge feather, tie in by the tip and wind two or three turns in front of the wing. Tie in and trim off the waste.
- Dub the thorax, using turns of dubbing to push the hackle fibres back around the wing and body.
- Build a small head, smear the thread with varnish and whip finish.
| Hook | Hends BL 550 #12/14 |
| Thread | 12/0 brown |
| Wing | Tan and black Fulling Mill ultra-dry yarn |
| Abdomen | Semperfli caddis brown dirty bug yarn |
| Hackle | Grey partridge |
| Thorax | Troutline black pepper squirrel dubbing |
