Henning's Snot

This fly was originally developed by Henning Eskol, a member of the Bananaflies - my fly tying guild. Henning's first flies used hare's ear dubbing and rubber legs, but at one of our meetings this winter he started puttin in some SLF to add a bit of shine to the fly. Since then he tied a lot of these flies, and it developed far. He wound up tying with SLF only, and after having tried the fly in water he announced: "It looks very good in the water - exactly like a gob of snot". He did say 'snotklat' which is actually a gob in Danish.

This is Henning's original 'Snotklat'

So we babtised the fly 'Snotklatten' - The Gob of Snot. I simply called it Henning's Snot.

My version of the fly with a straight eye hook

The pattern

The materials are as follows:

• The trick is to tie the SLF in as a two color dubbing rope - either in a loop or as a twisted rope.
• Henning does it with a loop putting both colors in there at once.
• I dub the body with the dark color and use a dubbing loop to cover it with the lighter shade.
• After the fly is finished it's heavily molested with a piece of velcro on a piece of dovel wood.
• Treat it rough and don't be frightned of tearing off a bit of material.
• On the finished fly all loose, light material points backwards and the darker color shines through.