Brown Bivisible
By Elaine Cook
Brown Bivisible
By Elaine Cook
Here's a real easy one for you beginners and a great attractor that floats high in the water Ð almost impossible to sink, and easy to see because of the white front hackle. Other colors of bivisible are also tied, but all have a white front hackle.
| Hook: | standard dry fly such as Tiemco TMC-100 sizes 10-16 |
| Thread: | brown 6/0 (or color to match the rear hackle) |
| Tail: | brown hackle fibers |
| Body: | optional; quill, tinsel, herl or floss |
| Hackle: | brown dry fly hackle with three turns of white hackle in front/TD> |
1. Crimp barb.
2. Attach thread at front of shank. Bring it to the rear of the shank in close touching turns, covering the shank.
3. Tie in a clump of stiff, non-webby hackle fibers extending one shank length to the rear.
4. Select brown dry fly hackle with barbs equal to one and a half times the hook gape. If using hackle from a neck, select three feathers. If using a saddle hackle, one will suffice.
5. Cut off the fuzzy butt of the hackle. Stroke back four or five of the barbs on each side of the butt and trim them close to the stem, giving them a crew cut look. Tie it to the top of the shank at the rear, extending over the bend, dull side toward you. If using neck hackles, mount all three of them together.
6. If doing a body (optional), tie in the body material extending to the rear.
7. Bring thread forward to three eye lengths behind the eye. You will tie off the body and the brown hackle at this point.
8. If doing a body (optional), wrap it forward, keeping it as smooth as possible, tie off and cut excess.
9. Swing the hackle tip(s) away from you over the rear of the hook, without twisting. Wrap forward in tightly spaced turns if using saddle hackle. If using neck hackle, wrap all three together in close spiral turns, but not letting any hackle stem cross over a previous wrap. Tie off and cut excess. Either method should provide a dense hackle body.
10. Select a white hackle with barb length one and a half to one and three quarters times the hook gape. Prepare the hackle butt the same way as the brown hackle was in step 5.
11. Tie in the white feather in the same way as the brown feather was tied in, in step 5. Binding down the prepared butt, bring the thread forward to one eye length behind the eye. If necessary, cut excess hackle butt so it doesn't stick out over the eye. Handling the white hackle in the same way as the brown hackle was in step 9, starting hard against the brown hackle, take three turns of white hackle forward in close wraps. Tie off and cut excess.
12. Wrap a small head, whip finish and cut excess thread.