Materials

• Hook: Size 8 3X Streamer hook (straight shank)
• Bead: 7/64 Nickel
• Thread: Black 14/0
• Tail: Adoro soft black Make up brush
• Body: Small yellow, red or green Antron chenille
• Wing: Three long pheasant body feathers

Tying Instructions

Cover back two thirds of hook with thread, bring thread back to starting point.

Tie in the makeup brush fibres along the shank of the hook. The finished tail should be the length of the shank.

Tie in the Antron chenille and wind a body back to the bead, but don’t crowd the bead.

Tie in a pheasant feather on both sides and the top of the hook. The feathers should be just short of or in line with the end of the tail.

Whip finish. Take the hook out of the vise and with your fingers crush and position feathers along the body.

Paul Fedeles