Martin Joergensen (sort of)
Wet fly
Medium
- Start the red thread a couple of eye widths behind the hook eye.
- Wrap the thread in touching turns to just in front of the bend of the hook and back. Repeat.
- Whip finish and cut the red thread.
- Start the black thread right in front of the red.
- Tie in the herl and wrap to form a small thorax, just leaving space for the hackle.
- Pick a hackle with barbs about 1.5 times the shank length.
- Remove the fluffy barbs.
- Hold the hackle by the stem curved side up, tip pointing away from you.
- Remove all barbs on the right side of the hackle.
- Tie it in by the stem right in front of the thorax pointing away from you, the remaining barbs pointing to the rear of the fly.
- Wrap it a couple of times to form a very delicate and sparse “umbrella-like” hackle. Less is more.
- Tie down and trim the tip off.
- Whip finish and cut thread.
- Varnish very sparsely on the final wraps.
brown trout
grayling
| Hook | Wet fly down eye size 10-14 |
| Body | UNI 8/0 tying thread, red |
| Thread | Semplerfli Nanosilk, black |
| Thorax | A couple of peacock herl |
| Hackle | Light brown hen hackle |
