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Green Drake Fly
How do you tie a Green Drake Fly?
Green Drake Fly is a dry fly pattern for trout. Find its 7 materials and 27 tying steps below.
- Difficulty
- 3 of 5
- Target species
- trout
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At the vise
Materials
- TMC 100 #10
- Thread (70 Denier), Olive
- Olive Dyed Deer Hair
- Uni Flexx, Camel
- Superfine Dubbing, Olive
- Moose Mane
- Whiting Olive Grizzly
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Tying instructions
Secure hook in vise.
Start thread one and a half to two eye-lengths behind the eye.
Wrap thread back to form a base for the deer hair wing.
Cut a small clump of Hairline Coastal Deer Hair, Medium.
Remove the fuzzy underfur.
Stack the deer hair in a hair stacker.
Measure the deer hair to be one hook-shank length.
Tie in the deer hair wing with a pinch wrap.
Wrap thread back to secure the wing.
Cut the excess deer hair at a slight angle to form a taper.
Wrap thread through the deer hair to hold everything in place.
Separate the deer hair into two fairly even wings.
Make crossing wraps to separate the wings.
Make posting turns around the wing to separate them further.
Wrap thread back to the start of the hook bend.
Tie in a half-dozen strands of Moose Body Hair for the tail, extending one hook-shank length.
Wrap thread forward to the base of the wing.
Tie in UNI FLEXX, Camel, on the far side of the hook.
Dub Super Fine Dubbing, Olive, onto the thread.
Wrap the dubbing forward to form a tapered body.
Counter-wrap the UNI FLEXX forward over the dubbing, making five turns.
Tie in Whiting Olive Grizzly hackle.
Make three wraps of hackle behind the wing.
Pull the wing back and make three wraps of hackle in front of the wing.
Tie off the hackle.
Form a small head and whip finish.
Apply Super Glue to the head.