Angling Publications - Index

Angling Publications - may2008 - Index

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March Brown
(Loop Wing)
HOOK: Size 8 to 14. Mustad
R50, 94840, 80000BR;
Daiichi 1100 or TMC 100
THREAD: Brown. Gudebrod
BCS #98, UNI-Thread Dark
Brown or Danville 73
TAIL: Wood duck and brown
hackle fibers, mixed
BODY: Synthetic creamytan
dubbing
WING: Rust color Swiss
straw (raffia)
LEGS: Grizzly hackle,
trimmed top and bottom
HEAD: Thread
Jack Pangburn from Westbury, New York sent us this beautiful
emerger he uses to represent a hatching March brown
mayfly. He has written and hand illustrated an excellent
book entitled the Deer-Hair Fly-Tying Guidebook. We highly
recommend it. The book is available at www.flytyingworld.
com/pagesJ/jackpangburn.htm
FLY TYING CLINIC
Al & Gretchen Beatty
Al and Gretchen Beatty
are FFA’s fly-tying editors.
To submit your favorite pattern
for publication, e-mail
them at albeatty2@aol.com
1 Set the hook in the vise and attach the thread to the shank
a very short distance back from the eye. Leave enough room to
later wrap four turns of hackle and build a thread head. Wrap
back to the end of the hook shank. Select fibers from a wood
duck flank and a brown hackle feather, even the tips and tie
them to the hook to form a tail equal to the shank in length.
Trim any excess material.
2 Apply dubbing to the thread then wrap a body that covers the
rear 80% of the hook shank. Select a strip of Swiss straw that is
as wide as the hook gape, tie it to the hook at the front of the
body and trim the waste portion.
3 Strip the fuzzy material from the base of a grizzly feather and tie
it to the hook in front of the body. Wrap a four-turn application,
tie it off and trim the excess feather. Clip the wrapped hackle on
the top and the bottom.
4 Pull the Swiss straw loosely over the wrapped hackle to form a
looped wing, tie it off and trim the excess. Build a thread head,
whip-finish and trim. Apply head cement to complete the fly.