I was going to put some eyes on him but I do not have anything big enough to use. I did not do any trimming I kind a like it with the wooley natural look! You can't really see the tail all the well in the picture but its there. To be honest I do not know if it actually looks like a mouse or cousin "It" from the Addam's Family. I had some TruTurn hooks that came with my Ebay lot but I have no idea what size. I think the patch of hair is Elk but I am not 100 percent sure so someone please tell me if it is Elk or Deer hair.Īnyway I did not have anything for my tail of my mouse so I used 2 brown hackles. The pictures is the hair I used on my first spinning hair fly. Some of you may recall I came across a lot on Ebay that I popped on and it had various types of hair. I just plug up the shop vac and in a few minutes it is all cleaned up. To tell you the truth I kind of like it however it is messy as all get out but my fly tying is done out in my shop so the ole lady can't ride my butt about making a mess. Besides that it is well written and has clusters of interesting anecdotes.Well I have ventured off into the hair spinning aspect of fly tying. His book is particularly powerful on the theories of selectivity and neatly unpacks fly pattern selection when you bump difficult trout. Born in Canada, Bob has fly fished since the late 50’s. The DHE is a brilliant pattern, but then I have to say Bob Wyatt’s book Trout Hunting is something of a minor masterpiece as well. As you wind the hare dubbing back toward the wing it will force the deer hair into a more upright position.īring the thread forward winding through the thorax dubbing, form a head just behind the eye of the hook with a few wraps of thread and whip finish. Repeat the dubbing loop step here, wax both arms and touch them with a bunch of fur off the hare’s mask. Now take the thread forward to just behind the eye of the hook. Wind on the ribbing thread in a counter direction to the abdominal dubbing. Or you can simply dub as you know best.īrushing the arms of a waxed dubbing loopĬover the hook shank with dubbing, carefully winding evenly spaced turns all the way to the base of the deer hair wing. Now close the loop and twist it tight either using your fingers or a dubbing twister. You will find this a most exciting and simple way to add dubbing. If you use a dubbing loop wax both arms of the loop then brush each arm by stroking a clump of dubbing along it. The piece of thread left at the bend will become your ribbing once the abdomen is dubbed on. If you don't use a loop to dub, simply dub the way you know best. If you use a loop to add dubbing, then form a loop of tying thread here, trap the loop, but in addition, leave a free standing piece of thread at the end of the shank. The thorax is made from the hair off a hare’s face where a few guard hairs will be included.ĭress the hook shank well down into the bend and then tie in a small bunch of deer hair a few millimetres back from the eye of the hook as illustrated.Ĭover the deer hair butts securely with thread and then wind back to the bend of the hook. Bob even describes using plain hare’s ear dubbing for the abdomen in some patterns. I use Hare-Tron dubbing for the abdomen in olive gold, but clearly many of the more drab colour variations will do. Your deer hair should be fine and in a natural colour and I look for skins that have hair with a little contrast in the tips. You will need a light wire, curved shank hook (we now often refer to these as an Emerger or Caddis Pupa style hook) in size 12 through to 20. This is definitely a pattern worth having in your box, but then as so many anglers will attest, so is Hans Weilenmann’s CDC & Elk! To cut a long story short Hans blanked and Bob took fish after fish, which I know proves nothing much on the day, other than that we have all been there one way or another! Still it suggests that the DHE has something going for it and that’s certainly my impression. Photo per kind permission of Hans Weilenmann Wyatt has his DHE on and Hans uses his wonderful pattern, the CDC & Elk. There’s an interesting aside in his book where he describes fishing the Elk River in British Columbia in a sort of friendly shoot out against Hans Weilenmann. The secret in this fly I think lies in the submerged abdomen and that’s where I guess the ‘vulnerability’ comes from, also a general characteristic of the now equally celebrated Klinkhamer style patterns. Enter the DHE, now one of his most celebrated patterns. Among his regular dry fly patterns he found a gap for a rugged, reliable, all-round emerger that he could tie easily. In Bob Wyatt’s celebrated book, Trout Hunting, he describes ‘tying for vulnerability’.
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