Daiichi fly

[Tami]

Daiichi #1150 size 10 hooks, but you can try other brands and sizes.

Material


Hook: Daiichi #1150, Size 10
Thread: Black, Size 8/0 or 6/0
Body: Uni French Oval Tinsel, Copper
Head: Copper beadhead with three or four peacock herls below
Gills: White floss

Instructions

1. Slip bead over hook and then place hook into vice.
2. Take a few inches of floss off the spool, and double it over twice in such a way that you are tying on four strands.
3. Secure the floss to the hook with thread just below the eye. Whip finish and cut thread.
4. Trim the floss trailing below where you secured it to the hook.
5. Slide the bead up and over where you've tied the floss on. You want it as snug as you can against the hook eye with the floss between the eye and the bead.
6. Re-attach the thread behind the beed and wind it well down the hook shank. At this point, you could trim the floss gills. I've heard it suggested that the length should be about the same as the diameter of the bead. I've used different lengths - the fish still took the fly.
7. Tie in the copper oval tinsel.
8. Wind thread back up to just below the bead, remembering you are going to tie in the peacock herl.
9. Wind the oval tinsel back up the hook and tie off, trim tinsel.
10. Tie in peacock herl by the tips.
11. Wind peacock herl around, about four times. Tie down peacock herl right behind the bead. Trim the peacock herl.
12. For security, apply some head cement to thread and then wind thread around peacock herl.
13. Whip finish behind the bead.
14. Trim the gills formed by the floss.