Tying the Woodcock & Hare's Lug

 

Tying the Woodcock & Hare's lug

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a simple wet fly tied using the basic foundations of tying spiders / wet flies.

 

 

For this tutorial, the materials used are:

 

Hook: B175 #16

Thread: Pearsall's silk (waxed)

Hackle: Woodcock

Thorax: Hare's ear

 

 

 

 

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Catch in the silk and the hackle feather. If you wish, remove the hackle fibres from one side to achieve an even more sparsely dressed fly

 

Bind down the stem and trim the waste

 

In open, evenly spaced wraps, wind the silk towards the eye to form a rib

 

Dub a small amount of fur from a Hare's ear and form a noodle of dubbing around the thread. Wind to form a thorax.

 

Wind the hackle in front of the haging thread. Take the thread through the hackle at a 45 degree angle and give two wraps in behind the eye. Trim the waste hackle tip and whip finish.