What it imitates
A hatching buzzer or dark sedge, fished as a traditional wet.
When to fish it
Classic top dropper on a lake or loch in a wave — bounce it through the surface.
Materials
- Black floss or seal's fur
- Fine oval silver tinsel
- Golden pheasant tippet fibres
- Long black cock hackle
- Black thread
Steps
- 1
Tie in a tail of golden pheasant tippet fibres, short and neat.
- 2
Catch in the silver rib and wind a slim black body forward.
- 3
Rib the tinsel forward in five even turns.
- 4
Wind two or three turns of a long soft black hackle at the head and whip finish.