Orange Asher

Dry Fly

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: dry fly #10 – 16

Thread: black

Materials-

body hackle: ginger dry fly sized to hook

body: orange floss

Notes:

The Orange Asher is a dry fly attractor that imitates a caterpillar.

Lay down a base of black thread.
Tie in the hackle by the butt end at the hook bend, dull side out, shiny side toward the hook
Wrap the thread forward
Tie in a length of orange floss; thread wrap to hook bend
Wrap thread back up to behind eye
Touching wrap the body with the floss; tie off; clip extra
Reverse palmer (the hackle fibers should point toward the eye) the hackle in a spiral wrap over the body to behind the eye; tie off; clip extra
Wrap a thread head; whip finish; head cement.