Scarlet Hackle

Soft Hackle Wet Fly

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: # 12-18 nymph / wet

Thread: red

Materials-

rib: Black silk thread

body: red: wool, dubbing, yarn, floss

front hackle: red: hen soft, or full dry

Notes:

This fly is from the illustration by Charles Orvis in Favorite Flies and Their Histories by Mary Orvis Marbury.

In the attached video and in the recipe here, it is tied as a soft hackle wet fly; it could just as easily be tied as a dry fly emerger.

There is no recipe in Mary Marbury’s book, except for the general recipe for the Red Hackle which does use black silk thread for the rib and red wool for the body.

Lay down a base of red thread
Tie in a black silk thread to be used as the rib
Tie in a stand of red floss at hook bend and touching wrap forward; tie off, trim
OR
Dub a red wool or red dubbing body
Counter spiral wrap the silk thread over the body to create the segmented look
Tie in a red hackle feather (soft hackle for a wet hackle or dry hackle for a dry fly) 1 to 1.5 eye lengths behind eye; wrap hackle to desired thickness; catch in stem, clip out stem
Thread wrap a head; tie off; head cement

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