First saw this at the College Park show years ago during a demo by Barry Beck. Looked pretty cool, wasn't too hard to tie and it caught fish; gets my vote. hook - Mustad 9671 #6 thread - UTC 6/0 olive tail - marabou olive flash - Krystal Flash rootbeer body - hen saddle grizzly dyed olive gills - saddle grizzly dyed red legs - Sili legs olive eyes - lead painted yellow head - golden olive dubbing mash barb and attach thread at 75% mark (make 2 small bumps; the eye will sit in the "saddle") tie in eye on top of hook shank with figure 8 wraps; apply a little crazy glue to the wraps wrap back to bend and tie in some strands of Krystal Flash on top of hook; let butts hang over front of fly continue wrapping back to point above barb measure marabou blood (shank length) and tie in wrap marabou forward and trim take half of the Krystal Flash butts and tie down along near side; other half on far side prep a saddle hackle and tie in wrap hackle forward; keep it dense tie in another saddle and repeat and again (depending on shank length, you may need additional feathers) tie in red saddle and wrap; stop behind eyes tie in legs in front of eyes take half and pull back on near side secure behind eyes with a couple wraps repeat on far side grab legs, pull up and trim (shank length) split thread (Mr. Beck used pre-made dubbing ropes; those are nice but I don't have any and am too lazy to make some) and insert some dubbing spin the bobbin to create dubbing rope wrap dubbing behind, through and in front of eyes when you think you have enough on the head, whip and SHHAN trim Krystal Flash (let it extend a bit beyond tail) and you're done; try them in tan and black, too Regards, Scott
