Hi All;

My first attempt at doing a step by step:

Materials: Mustad 3366 hook size 10, 6/0 thread brown/black/or olive, feather from the back of a male ringneck pheasant either multicolored brown or multicolored greenish, green or brown dubbing to match feather color, medium beadchain eyes.

tie bead chain eyes clouser style about a bead chain width behind eye of hook, secure with superglue on beadchain wraps.


use the long fluff from one side at the base of your pheasant feather for the tail, tie in as tail above hook barb:




Wax thread and dub a tapered body to beadchain eyes and proceed to cross wrap dubbing around eyes and finish with a little dubbing in front or eyes, be sure to leave room for thread head.



prepare feather for hackle by stroking barbs back and attach feather with 2 or 3 thread wraps just behing eyes.


wrap hackle collar using hackle pliers 2 or 3 wraps.

Tie down hackle and cut of excess, then stroke and hold fibers towards back of fly with thumb and finger of non tying hand. tie several wraps back over hackle to get fibers to lay back.

Form thread head then apply head cement to head.

Completed fly should look something like this:


Wayne

nice job.

Good Job, I should be able to tie that up now.
Thank You Wayne.

Sweet!! A nice job on the step by step.

thanks wayne nicely done. so you use dubbing instead of the fluff from the feather. i guess that would give you more colors to choose from. also were did you get that hackel plyers from? the one i have i hate it with a passion.

Great fly, and great tutorial. Now I need to tie some

The fluff at the base of the feather has tons of action in the water, maybe more so than marabou.

J.

what kind of action does this fly get do you catch any bass with it

   GREAT step-by-step..................Thanks for posting, I will tie some of these this week. I have plenty of the very same feathers....half the feather is fluff.....and yes...I was throwing all the fluff away too....I love tying with bead-chain ////  Never liked tying bead-heads  (stopped buying "bead-heads" a long time ago).......Don S.   (TL)

This would be a great fly to teach a bunch of kids or some FF club. I tied a bunch of these last night out of an old green saddle I had laying around.