Nick Thomas
Emerger
Easy
- Run on the thread behind the eye, take back about a third of the way along the shank and remove the tag end.
- Fold a piece of poly-yarn around the shank from underneath, secure with cross wraps in front and behind and then wind the thread up and down to form the wing post.
- Take the thread down to the bend and tie in the woven edge trimmed from a piece of cream organza ribbon coloured with an olive marker.
- Wind the organza up to just behind the wing post, tie in and trim.
- Strip the base of a partridge feather, tie in the stem behind the post and then a little way up the post.
- Dub behind and in front of the post leaving the thread hanging a short distance behind the eye with just a short length of thread out of the bobbin holder.
- Hold the end of the feather in hackle pliers and make two or three turns around the post working down toward the hook finishing with the hackle pliers hanging on the near side of the hook.
- Bring the thread around the hook and make some thread turns over the feather wiggling the tip of the bobbin holder to steer the thread between the feather fibres.
- Remove the hackle pliers and snip off the tip of the feather. Fold back the post and hackle and add some dubbing to complete the thorax.
- Smear the thread with varnish, whip finish and cut the thread.
brown trout
grayling
| Hook | Hends BL550 #12/14 |
| Thread | Sheer 14/0 brown |
| Abdomen | Olive organza selvedge |
| Post | Semperfli iron blue poly-yarn |
| Hackle | Olive partridge |
| Thorax | Olive squirrel dubbing |
