The Hackletip Sail Wing
HACKLE TIP (SAIL)
HACKLE TIP (SAIL)
Figure 5.2 Hackle Tip Wings
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MARABOU | |
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TIPPETS HERL / | |
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} Herl wound I over marabou | |
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MARABOU % L |
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Marabou wound over herl Then herl over marabou |
Ends trimmed |
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Figure 5.3 Royal Coachman Body | |
Advance the silk a turn or two towards the eye to form a bed for the wings which are to be tied in next.
Select two small glassy hackles from the white cock cape.
Strip the web material from the bases of the feathers. You will notice a slight concave shape to these feathers. Place one on a matchbox with concave shape down, tip over the edge of the box. Place the second feather concave side up, tip to tip over the first.
Pick up both feathers with right thumb and forefinger. Place the feathers along the shank to size them up - the tip should just reach the bend.
Keep the feathers in this position and change from right hand to left hand with point A just in the position to allow you to throw the loop.
Pinch the two feathers firmly: Throw a loop, pull down. Some tiers do NOT pull down, but bring the silk up and pull UP. Others throw a second loop before they pull down. You select the best method for yourself. Figure 5.4.
The first loop must remain the loop which holds the wing down - always make the following loops to the right of the first. Otherwise the wing may become displaced.
A SECRET LET GO THE SILK FIRST, THEN THE WING. If you do not, the force you are exerting on the silk will cause the wing to move over the shank away from you.
Throw several more loops to secure the wings. You could make several loops to the rear of the wings.
Tie in a red cock hackle in front of the wings after you snip off the waste.
Wind the hackle, two turns behind the wings, three in front if you favour a Hackle-Tip Wing. All in front if a Sail Hackle Tip wing. Tie off.
This is the Royal Coachman, an American variation on the English original. The origin is generally taken as a tie from Tom Bosworth, coachman of George IV, William IV and Queen Victoria. John Haily in New York was tying Coachman flies and ended with one similar to the one we have tied - the Royal Coachman. The Coachman has no whisks and no red waist.
A yellow marabou silk waistcoat forms a Californian Coachman.
5.3 RED SPINNER AND ORANGE SPINNER
The Red Spinner has red fibres as whisks, a marabou silk body of Royal Coachman red, ribbed gold lurex, white cock hackle tip sail wings and a red cock hackle.
The Orange Spinner, an orange body of marabou silk (Figure 5.5).
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Red Marabou ribbed gold - Red whisks White hackle tip sail wings — Red cock hackle | |
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Figure 5.5 |
ORANGE SPINNER ' As above but orange marabou Spinner Patterns |
The author must confess that the Red Spinner is one of his favourite flies but laziness overwhelms him and he just ties a red marabou silk body with a red hackle. (No rib, no tail, no wings) and this is an extremely productive fly when the Dayflies (Mayflies) are hatching. This can be fished either wet or dry. (Figure 5.6)
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