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Boar Bristle Pig Tube Fly
variation
tied by Bruce E. Harang
Materials:
Tube:
Aluminum or Brass bottle tube size 25mm or to size suit
Junction Tube: Silicone, color to suit
Thread: Gudebröd 6/0, color to suit
Tail: 4 Boar bristles, color to suit
Flash: 3 strands of pearlescent flashabou folded
Tail Veiling: Very small bunch of Buck Tail, color to suit
Tail Hackle: Hen tail feather or Schlappen with length equal to Buck Tail length, color to suit
Rib: Medium Oval Silver Tinsel
Body: Woolly nylon used as floss, floss or wool yarn are options
Body Hackle: Cock hackle shorter than tail hackle, color to suit
Wing:
2 pair of Whiting Lace Feathers tied flat in a V slightly shorter than body, color to suit, original
uses jungle cock eyes
Head:
< class="style1">Tying Instructions:
1. Mount a bottle tube in your tube vise or tube holder per manufacturer's instructions.
2. Attach the thread about 1/8 inches behind the front end of the tube and wrap to the rear in open spiral. Using an open spiral of thread will help lock the boar bristles onto the tube when you tie it down over the ridges formed by the spiraled thread.
3. Tie in 4 boar bristles with the natural curve away from the tube body center line axis and approximately 2 to 2 ½ times the length of the bottle tube. Wrap the butts down, lying next to one another, on top of the tube to the point where the thread was attached to the tube and then back to the boar bristle tie in point. You tie the boar bristles in with the "flared tip" end becoming the end of the "feeler", do not use bristles that do not have this "flared tip" at the end.
4. Cut a sparse bunch of bucktail hair and stack to even the tips. Tie it in on top of the boar bristles and almost as long as the boar bristles, about ¾ as long works well. Use bucktail hair that is long enough that you tie it in on the solid hard portion of the hair to prevent flaring of the hair.
5. Attach 3 full length strands of pearl fine flashabou and fold it around the thread, slide it on top of the bucktail hair, and tie it down in the folded position to create 6 strands of flashabou, cut to the same length as the bucktail hair.
6. Tie in a saddle hackle by the tip having a barb length about the same as the bucktail hair length and fold the hackle so the barbs all point to the rear. Wind 3 turns of hackle and tie off. Trim the excess.
7. Tie in a length of medium silver oval tinsel on the bottom of the tube, opposite the boar bristle tie in point.
8. Whip finish the thread at the rear of the fly and cut off the thread.
9. Attach spooled woolly nylon (floss is used in the original pattern) at the front of the fly body and wind on a body to the rear and then back to the front, creating a carrot shape with the fat end at the rear of the fly. Whip finish the woolly nylon at the front of the fly and cut off. Do not try to make too sharp an edge at the back of the body as both woolly nylon and floss do not stack well without support and can slip and ruin the fly (don't ask how I know this). Woolly nylon is easy to use on a bobbin holder and it produces a strong fishing body that can be burnished fairly smooth. In addition it does not change color when wet and is very strong. For show flies floss makes a much more polished looking body however
10. Reattach the thread at the front of the fly, cover the head area with thread positioning the thread at the front edge of the tapered body.
11. Tie in a cock hackle feather by the butt end, use a hackle that allows you to tie it in on the thin stem area and still have enough length to reach the back of the fly. Trim off the excess butt section.
12. Wind the cock hackle back in a 3 turn open spiral to the back of the fly body, then add one turn of hackle at the rear as a butt, and tie off with a turn of the medium silver oval tinsel over the cock hackle stem.
13. Continue to wind the medium silver oval tinsel in a 3 turn open spiral crossing over the cock hackle feather stem to further lock the hackle to the fly body, tie off at the front of the fly and cut off the excess.
14. Trim off the excess hackle stem at the rear of the fly, not too close to the tinsel so it does not slip out.
15. Fold the cock hackle fibers backward by forcing them with your fingers.
16. Tie in a pair of matched Whiting brand lace hen hackle feathers, one on each side of the fly, and having a length about equal to the body length. These are a nice substitute for jungle cock for use with fishing flies and you have a large selection of colors to choose from. The original pattern uses a pair of jungle cock eyes matched for size and shape and being about the length of the body, one on each side of the fly. Tie them in one at a time at the third white color band, the lower portion of the feather barbs having been removed.
17. Build a proportional thread head and whip finish. Cement and finish coat the head.
