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Dressing |
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tube: stainless steel needle tube 15mm long, diameter 1.8mm |
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tail: yellow and red bucktail with natural
squirrel under plus a few strands of
flashy material |
| body:
short fluorescent orange floss |
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wing: brown bucktail with a few strands of
flashy material |
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hackle: orange under brown |
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| For more information, see
Gray's Needle Tubes |
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Step 1 - Place needle tube in
needle tube vice
and wind a bed
of black tying thread about one third of the way along.
Step 2 - Tie in a sparse bunch of natural squirrel tail.
Step 3 - Rotate the vice through 180 degrees and tie in a
sparse bunch of yellow bucktail.
Step 4 - Tie in a sparse bunch of red bucktail.
Step 5 - Add a few strands of pearl Krystal Flash (or other
flashy material) to taste and tie in a short body of
fluorescent orange floss.
Step 6 - Tie in a sparse wing of brown bucktail plus a few
strands of orange Krystal Flash.
Step 7 - Tie in an orange hackle.
Step 8 - Wind two or three turns of orange hackle.
Step 9 - Wind two or three turns of brown hackle in front of
the orange, form a neat head and apply two coats of Cellire
No. 1 varnish.
The Dusty Miller Needle Tube Fly
Another Dusty Miller Tube Fly Variant
Substituting green for red in the wing/tail creates a fly
with quite a different appearance, as in the example below.
The Green Miller
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