Montezuma's Callibaetis Spinner

Based on a fly from Bojan Novakovic. A beautiful tie, his used guinea for the tail and a sparse wing; I subbed hackle fibers for the tail to improve floatation and a few more turns of Mearns (very similar to guinea but better suited for smaller flies than the guinea I have) to beef up the wing a bit.

hook - Dai Riki 320 #14
thread - MFC 8/0 sand
tail - grizzly hackle
abdomen - turkey biot callibaetis
hackle - grizzly (oversize by 1)
wing - Mearns (aka Montezuma) quail

mash barb, start thread at 2/3 mark, wrap to point above barb and create thread bump



strip off some hackle fibers, measure (hook length), tie in with wraps against the bump to splay/set angle





tie in (moistened) biot, notch-side down for ribbed effect; wrap to 2/3 mark, tie off/trim





tie in hackle



move thread to 3/4 mark and tie in quail by tip



wrap quail (keep the wraps tight against each other), tie off/trim



stroke fibers forward, divide evenly and set wing with cross-wraps





wrap hackle behind and in front of wing; tie off/trim, half hitch x 2, SHHAN



trim out hackle underneath









Regards,
Scott