Pheasant Tail Hopper

Pheasant Tail Hopper

Terrestrial

Tied By Richard Harris

Hook: Mustard 9671 #8

Thread: UTC Ultra 70D Hopper Yellow

Body Parts: body, rib, legs, wing case, thorax, post, hackle 

Materials: Hairline dry fly dubbing-mixed colors Light Olive and Dark Olive Green, D- Rib small Dk. Golden Stone, Pheasant Tail -Dyed yellow and Natural, Turkey wing feathers dyed yellow and green, Same dubbing as the body, Calf hair white, Grizzly, and Brown Grizzly/ whiting farms

Notes:

There are a lot of parts to this fly.  I tied the legs by putting the tail feathers together separating the amount I needed and then tying them.  Mix the diving colors together in a coffee grinder.  For the wing cases, I cut them with caddis wing cutters.  

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