The Blue One Hook: BH or Alec Jackson Tip: Silver oval tinsel Tag: Bright maroon silk Tail: Light blue Amherst tippet Body: Light, medium, and dark

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Benedict Merritt
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1 Confidence Fly I just got back from what might be my final trip of the year. The weather went south, I mean north. I fought weather and water conditions on all but one of my outings this year. I am not saying it was a bad thing, not at all. You can t have it perfect all the time and a little adversity makes you think outside the normal approach. I find the rewards a bit greater when I am tested and the water conditions this year were quite the test. If it wasn t off color the water temps were dumping and that is what happened on my last trip. The water went from the 50s to the low 40s over night. The fish slowed down and locked up. We were or should I say everyone around me was catching fish, it was just not as productive as it should have been. After going fishless the first two day, I needed a fish. We made it to the morning run in the dark. As I was waiting for first light I changed my tip. Not sure why, I just wanted to get the fly a little deeper. Well it did not work, the fly was getting to deep and hanging on ever cast. I tried to adjust my angle of attack and that seemed to help but the fly was still not fishing the way I wanted it to. I was in the best part of the run and I did not want to stop, bad choice. I burned up about 50 yards of prime water before coming to my senses. I stopped and changed the head to the one I should have had on in the first place, funny how the mind plays games on you when you are not hooking up. As you might have guessed, on the second cast I received verification I was over thinking it. A fished grabbed a hold of the little blue fly and was off doing its thing. This fly has yet to be named, not sure why, it has produced well for me on a number of different rivers. I have been calling it the blue one, might just have to come up with a better title for this nugget of blue confidence. Have fun with this one and thanks for looking.

The Blue One Hook: BH or Alec Jackson Tip: Silver oval tinsel Tag: Bright maroon silk Tail: Light blue Amherst tippet Body: Light, medium, and dark blue dubbing

2 The Blue One Hook: BH or Alec Jackson Tip: Silver oval tinsel Tag: Bright maroon silk Tail: Light blue Amherst tippet Body: Light, medium, and dark blue dubbing Rib: Blue Mylar Hackle: Light blue from tail joint Collar: Gadwall followed by a few turns of black RN pheasant Wing: Dyed black RN pheasant feather spooned over top

This fly starts with a tip and a tag. The maroon against the bright blue really pops in the water. Start the thread at the bend of the hook. Secure in a length of tinsel.

3 This fly starts with a tip and a tag. The maroon against the bright blue really pops in the water. Start the thread at the bend of the hook. Secure in a length of tinsel. Wrap the thread down the bend binding down the tinsel as you go. Take three turns with the tinsel to from the tip and return the thread to the start of the bend. Secure in a length of silk and take it down to the tip and back.

4 Clip off a small clump of tippet feather and secure in as a tail. To gauge the length of the tail use the bend of the hook.

5 Next secure in a hackle that has been stripped on one side, then secure in the ribbing followed by a length of blue silk. Wrap the silk down to the tail joint making sure of a good transition at the tag. The silk will be used for the dubbing loop.

6 Tie a knot in the end of the silk. Split the silk in two equal parts and load with dubbing. I like the body to be half light and half dark. I use three different colors of dubbing but two would work just as good. Give the loop a spin and dubbed the body.

7 Bring the rib forward making 5 open turns. The hackle follows the rib forward. Make a few extra turns with the hackle at the head of the fly.

8 Secure in a Gadwall feather and turn for a collar.

9 Next secure in a black pheasant feather. If you don t have a dyed black Ring Neck Pheasant hide, you are missing out on some great feathers. Wrap the pheasant feather as a collar.

Find you a nice black pheasant feather for the wing. This feather is found on the flank. Strip the fluff off and push the stem through the eye of the fly.

10 Find you a nice black pheasant feather for the wing. This feather is found on the flank. Strip the fluff off and push the stem through the eye of the fly. A few good securing wraps will bind the wing down. Clip the tag end of the stem and give the fly a whip. I have a lot of confidence in this type of a wing. They are easy to tie and give the fly good movement. No limit to what you can do with this style of fly, good tying and better fishing.

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