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Catskill-Style Hendrickson Dry
How do you tie a Catskill-Style Hendrickson Dry?
Catskill-Style Hendrickson Dry is a dry fly pattern for trout. Find its 6 materials and 33 tying steps below.
- Difficulty
- 3 of 5
- Target species
- trout
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At the vise
Materials
- Hook: TMC 100 #12-14
- Thread: 6/0, Olive
- Wing: Wood duck flank feather
- Tail: Hackle fibers, dark dun
- Abdomen: Australian possum dubbing, hendrickson
- Hackle: Dark dun
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Tying instructions
Mash the barb and secure the hook in the vise.
Start thread on the hook shank, leaving an eye-length space behind the eye.
Take wraps rearward and break or snip off the tag.
Leave your thread at the 1/3 point on the hook shank, where the base of the wing will be located.
Strip the shorter, fuzzier fibers from a single wood duck flank feather.
Even the tips of the wood duck flank feather.
Snip the tip of the feather off with fine-point scissors to leave a V-shaped notch.
Stroke the fibers up the stem and fold the two sides together to even the tips.
Measure the fibers against the hook; the wings should be one full hook-length tall.
Transfer that measurement to the tie-in point.
With your tying thread, make one full loose pinch wrap and then pull straight up.
Use a few more wraps to secure the bundle to the top of the hook shank.
Continue wrapping rearward before snipping the butts off at a shallow angle.
Wind over these butts with nice tight wraps of tying thread.
Wind your thread forward and, while pulling back on the wood duck, build a small thread dam in front to hold the fibers up.
Pull the wood duck fibers back and use a dubbing needle to split the bundle in half.
Use cross wraps to initially separate the two wings, followed by figure-8 wraps to further separate and define them.
Snip out any errant fibers and then take wraps rearward to the hook point.
Strip some nice stiff fibers from a dark dun hackle feather for the tail.
Even the tips of the tail fibers by gingerly tapping the butt ends.
Secure the hackle fibers to the top of the hook shank to form a tail about a hook-shank in length.
Wind your tying thread forward to completely cover the butts.
Select a small clump of hendrickson-colored Australian possum dubbing and begin forming a tapered dubbing noodle on your tying thread.
With the noodle complete, wrap rearwards so it starts right at the base of the tail.
Take adjacent wraps up the hook shank to form a slim, tapered abdomen, leaving a little space behind the wing.
Select two matching dark dun hackles and arrange them so the dull backsides of the feathers are facing each other.
Snip off the butt ends of both feathers at the point where they start to get webby.
Lay the stems diagonally on the near side of the hook and take a few wraps to secure them behind the wing.
Follow these with a few wraps in front of the wing to further pin them to the hook shank.
With hackle pliers, grab the feather that has the dull side facing forward.
Take a couple of wraps of hackle behind the wing, and then pull the wing back and take a few more wraps in front.
Snip the hackle tip off close.
Complete the fly with a 4-5 turn whip finish and snip your tying thread free.