Recipe
for Black Ghost
Hook: Streamer Hook
Thread: Black
Tail: Yellow Hackle
Rib: Silver Tinsel, oval
Body: Black Floss or Wool
Throat: Yellow Hackle
Wing: White marabou
Recipe
for Jack Gartside's New Wave Soft Hackle
Recipe for Rob Lurie's BUFF (Big Ugly Freakin Fly)
Hook: 2-12
any length
Thread: Color of marabou feather
Tail: 3/8 inch clump of marabou
Flash: Peacock Krystal Flash
Body: 1/2 inch clumps of marabou
Wing: 1/2 inch clump of marabou from stiff-stemmed
feather.
Collar: Optional: Soft hackle of partridge
or colored feather.
Eyes: Bead chain, barbell, or none.
Head
cement: Clear sparkle nail polish.Wind thread evenly
to bend.
- Wind thread evenly to bend.
Tie on marabou from stem of stiff feather. Tie in at bend, leaving
about 1/4 inch butt and holding up the tail. Tail should be about
hook length.
- Tie in 2 pieces of peacock Krystal Flash on top of tail, leaving
half the length forward. Fold over forward pieces and tie
down on top of first flash. Cut flash unevenly a little shorter
than the tail. The flash keeps the tail from winding around
the bend of the hook.
- Repeat steps 2 and 3 with slightly shorter clump of marabou,
tying new clump ahead of old butt and holding up the wing while
tying. The butts will form the body.
- Repeat until 3/16th inch from hook eye. Reverse tie the
final clump and fold back.
- Tie on eyes (optional)
- Wind collar (optional)
Recipe for Barry Beck's Superbug
Hook: 2,4,6
Thread: Match
color.
Tail: 2 Marabou feathers (he used olive and tan).
Eyes: Painted
Barbells
Body: Soft hackle with fluff
Head: Sparkle dubbing or dubbing brush
Flash
Sillilegs
