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Night Hawk gold and olive
How do you tie a Night Hawk gold and olive?
Night Hawk gold and olive is a streamer fly pattern for bass, pike. Find its 9 materials and 18 tying steps below.
- Difficulty
- 4 of 5
- Target species
- bass, pike
- Pattern designer
- Simon Ward
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At the vise
Materials
- Hook: Gamakatsu Siwash 1/0-1
- Thread: 8/0 Black
- Marabou: Black
- Bead: Custom gold
- Tail: Elk Hair
- Dubbing: gold ice dubbing
- Hackle: Olive
- Rubber Legs: Olive
- Resin: uv resin
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Tying instructions
1. Add Bead to hook
2. Secure hook in vise
3. Create thread base on hook shank
4. Create thread dam behind bead
5. Secure elk hair at the back of fly, just longer than the hook shank
6. Identify where the hook shank ends and mark it on your marabou
7. The spot you marked, trim all marabou off of one half of the feather going down towards the front of it
8. Secure the feather, making sure all remaining feather is not caught under thread
9. Create a dubbing noodle with your red ice dubbing
10. Wrap your dubbing toward, remember keep tension
11. When you get to the head take a few wraps to secure the dubbing
12. Secure two rubber legs to the side of the collar, I fold over two legs to create four
13. Give a few loose wraps then position your legs on the underside of the fly
14. Tightly secure legs and bring thread back to front of fly
15. Secure hackle to collar
16. Wrap hackle forward on close spirals fitting as many loops as you can
17. Secure hackle
18. Whip finish and secure knot with uv resin