What it imitates
An emerging buzzer or nymph, with the soft hackle giving it life.
When to fish it
Stillwater top dropper or middle fly on a slow retrieve, spring and summer.
Materials
- Cock pheasant tail fibres
- Fine copper wire
- Peacock herl or dubbing thorax
- Grey partridge or hen hackle
- Brown thread
Steps
- 1
Tie in a short pheasant tail tail and the wire rib.
- 2
Wind pheasant tail fibres forward as a slim body and rib with wire.
- 3
Build a small peacock herl thorax at the front.
- 4
Wind one and a half turns of soft partridge hackle, sweep it back and whip finish.