05-27-2011, 04:12 PM
Grizzly does come in many colors, but the colors are added. Grizzly is a white feather with black barring. Then we dye them. The terminology to be used, so we can communicate the instructions for tying would be grizzly, or grizzly dyed ____ as in grizzly dyed red or grizzly dyed yellow. I have some that are grizzly dyed tangerine for a orange bead head wooly bugger (pumpkin head) Sorry, no picture but the instructions are:
Hook: 10-12, 3X-4X
Thread: Olive 6/0
Bead: Orange, I prefer glass craft beads with metal linings
Rib: Copper wire
Tail: Olive marabou
Body: Olive marabou wrapped from the tail OR peacock herl
Hackle: Grizzly dyed tangerine
This is modified from the original. You might try orange dubbing for the head or small orange chenille. For weight try a gold or brass colored bead, and a few wraps of lead or non-lead wire, omit the glass bead and add orange something. (Some would say it resembles an egg sucking leech when tied that way.) There are lots of possibilities for the body material as well.
Here is one tier's take on how to tie this productive fly on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0jbRAKY19E . Notice he dyed his "plain grizzly hackle" with sugarless Kool-AId.
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Hook: 10-12, 3X-4X
Thread: Olive 6/0
Bead: Orange, I prefer glass craft beads with metal linings
Rib: Copper wire
Tail: Olive marabou
Body: Olive marabou wrapped from the tail OR peacock herl
Hackle: Grizzly dyed tangerine
This is modified from the original. You might try orange dubbing for the head or small orange chenille. For weight try a gold or brass colored bead, and a few wraps of lead or non-lead wire, omit the glass bead and add orange something. (Some would say it resembles an egg sucking leech when tied that way.) There are lots of possibilities for the body material as well.
Here is one tier's take on how to tie this productive fly on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0jbRAKY19E . Notice he dyed his "plain grizzly hackle" with sugarless Kool-AId.
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