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Simple Olive
How do you tie a Simple Olive?
Simple Olive is a dry fly pattern for trout. Find its 7 materials and 8 tying steps below.
A sparse, beginner-friendly olive dry fly that uses CDC, Coq de Leon, and a touch of dubbing to suggest small olives and other delicate upwinged insects on trout water.
- Difficulty
- 2 of 5
- Target species
- trout
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At the vise
Materials
- Dry Fly Hook
- Coq de Leon Fibers
- CDC Feather
- Semperfli Kapok Olive Dun
- Dry Fly Hackle
- Fox Squirrel
- Thread (8/0)
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Tying instructions
Start with a Hanak 130 BL hook in the vice.
Attach olive Nanosilk thread to the hook shank.
Tie in 3 Coq de Leon fibers for the tail.
Align 3 CDC feather tips and tie them in for the wing.
Use Semperfli Kapok Olive Dun for dubbing the body.
Tie in the tip of a small feather from a grizzle cape as hackle.
Finish the head with a pinch of Fox Squirrel dubbing.
Whip finish and apply head cement.