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Borcher's Drake Parachute
How do you tie a Borcher's Drake Parachute?
Borcher's Drake Parachute is a emerger fly pattern for trout, panfish, bass. Find its 10 materials and 19 tying steps below.
- Difficulty
- 3 of 5
- Target species
- trout, panfish, bass
- Pattern designer
- Ernie Borcher
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Materials
- Hook: Size 8–12 2XL dry fly hook
- Thread: Olive or brown 8/0
- Tail: Moose body hair or microfibbets
- Abdomen: Olive dubbing
- Rib (optional): Fine gold wire
- Wing Post: White calf hair, poly yarn, or EP fiber
- Hackle: Grizzly dry fly hackle
- Hackle: Brown dry fly hackle
- Thorax: Dark olive or brown dubbing
- Head Cement: Optional
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Tying instructions
1: Start thread 1/4 shank behind hook eye
2: Wrap thread base to bend of hook
3: Tie in moose hair or microfibbets for tail
4: Keep tail about hook shank length
5: Tie in optional fine wire rib
6: Dub tapered olive abdomen forward
7: Stop abdomen 1/3 shank behind eye
8: Counter-wrap optional ribbing forward
9: Tie in white parachute post vertically
10: Build thread wraps around base of post
11: Tie in grizzly hackle against post
12: Tie in brown hackle against post
13: Dub darker thorax around post
14: Wrap hackle downward around post
15: Make 3–5 wraps per hackle feather
16: Tie off hackle beneath parachute wraps
17: Build small thread head
18: Whip finish
19: Apply small drop of head cement if desired