Materials List
Hook: Down eye Silk: Brown
Tail: Golden pheasant crest feather
Rob: Oval gold tinsel
Body: Yellow-dyed seal’s fur
Body hackle: Red game cock palmered sparsely
Wings: Hen pheasant centre tail
Throat hackle: From wing of blue jay or blue dyed guinea fowl
Tying Notes
- prepare the tail by wetting the pheasant crest feathers and allowing them to dry on plate glass
- tie the silk in with a jam knot and run the thread down the hook shank in touching turns
- assess the length of the tail and tie it in
- tie in the gold oval tinsel from the front of the hook, underneath the shank, to the bend of the hook
- dub the seals fur onto the tying silk
- tie in hackle feather and palmer it along hook shank back to bend
- wind oval gold tinsel ribbing back through palmered hackle and tie off back from the hook eye
- tie in blue jay or guinea fowl hackle as a beard
- select a slip from the hen pheasant centre tail and fold in from both ends and fold again to form the wing
- attach wing by using a pinch and loop technique
- whip finish by hand or with a whip finishing tool
Background Notes
Invented by James Ogden, the renowned Cheltenham fly dresser, as a good representation of a hatching sedge fly. It is ideal for fishing on small or large waters from a boat or the bank, usually as the bob fly in a team of three.