Hackle: Two Whiting Midge Saddles sized approximately 2 hook sizes undersized
Tie in Midge Saddles. Prepare the hackle by stripping a few barbs off the stem, with a few extra stripped off the bottom of the feather. Tie in the hackle dry fly style....shony side back and dull side forward. Wind 3 to 4 wraps with both hackles concurrently to the head and tie off.
Sorry to pester but...
"go try it at the vice!"
I understand the stripping of a couple barbs to make the first wrap bed down easier, but why 2 of the same hackle? (2x 3-4 wraps vs 1x 6-8 wraps) I've tied 2 on an Adams but they were different colored and on a couple bushy buggers I've palmered 2.
Also, if you tie the shiny side forward the barbs sort of lay back a little bit but is it enough to make it dive? I haven't been paying that attention to that
Betty mentioned the Hornberg
1 2 3 to me last season at pyramid (really odd fly, sort of streamerish but with that hackled head). Is this one that you'd tie shiny side forward?
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