I don't have a name for this fly although am sure someone around the globe has tied one before or something similar. It's a play on a bigger Norwegian sea trout fly that uses a pair of bead chin eyes tied along the middle of the shank. Anyway, let's just call it the "Grizzly Jake". It can be fished as an attractor pattern as your front fly, but I fish this as a point fly behind a booby slowly on a Hover or floating line around the margins of trout dams.
Materials.
#12 or #14 long shanked hook
Cream or white thread
2 x grizzly soft hackle
Red dubbing
Natural hares ear dubbing blend.
1 x strand pearl tinsels.
Step 1
Tie one of the Grizzly soft hackles on to the back of the hook by the bend so it sticks out 10mm.
Step 2
Twist a fine noodle of red dubbing along your thread and then palmer around to make a ball.
Step 3
Tease out the dubbing with a dubbing brush or velcro.
Step 4
Tie on the pearl tinsel directly in front of the red dubbing. Then twist a fine noodle of the hare’s ear dubbing blend and then palmer along the shank to 3mm before the hook eye.
Step 5
Then wrap in the opposite direction the pearl tinsel to the end point of the dubbing, and then tease out with a dubbing brush or velcro pulling the dubbing back towards the tail. This gives the body some bulk for the hackle to sit over.
Step 6
Split the tip of the second grizzly soft hackle and tie on. Snip excess away.
Step 7
Then palmer hackle until it butts up against the hook eye and tie off. Whip finish then take a red permanent marker and colour the head.
