Hans van Klinken
Emerger
A little difficult
- Start the red thread a couple of eye widths behind the hook eye.
- Wrap the thread in touching turns well into the bend of the hook and back. Repeat.
- Whip finish and cut the red thread.
- Start the black thread right in front of the red.
- Tie in the wing pointing forward over the eye, leaving a little bare shank in front. Make it fairly sparse. It can be too long since it will be trimmed later.
- Build up a small wall in front of the wing to get it perpendicular to the shank.
- Tie in a couple of peacock herl behind the wing, pointing to the rear of the fly.
- Wrap a thread base around the wing post, about 1-2 eye widths high.
- Strip barbs off the hackle to have some bare stem.
- Tie the hackle in by the stem on the top of the hook shank in front of the wing.
- The hackle should have the shiny side up and point away from you.
- Wrap the thread over the stem up the wing post base and wrap the thread down again.
- The hackle now sits at the top of the wing post base.
- Wrap the hackle down towards the hook, counterclockwise when seen from above.
- 4-5-6 wraps will create a fairly dense parachute hackle.
- Tie down the hackle in front of the wing and trim.
- Wrap the herl to create a thorax under the hackle.
- Tie down in front of the thorax, trim and whip finish.
- Add a smidgen of varnish on the finishing wraps.
grayling
rainbow trout (landlocked)
| Hook | Partridge Klinkhamer GRS 15ST #18 |
| Body | UNI 8/0 tying thread, red |
| Thread | Semplerfli Nanosilk, black |
| Wing | Antron yarn, white |
| Hackle | Brown badger cock hackle, slightly oversize |
| Thorax | A couple of peacock herl |
