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Kori Strut Recipe: Hook: Partridge
Bartleet, Alec Jackson, or equivalent Tying Instructions: 1. Mount hook and attach the thread to close the return wire wrapping back to the point of the hook. 2. Tie in a length of fine copper oval tinsel and make a 7 turn tag, tie off and cut off the excess. 3. Tie in a tail comprising paired slips or a folded slip of brown speckled Kori body feather reaching to the bend of the hook. Cut off the butts at the tie in point. 4. Tie in a reddish copper colored fine ostrich herl and wrap a joint to cover the tag and tail tie off point. 5. Move the thread forward to a point 25 percent of the shank length behind the eye of the hook. 6. Tie in a length of embossed copper tinsel and wrap the tinsel back against the herl joint and back to the tie in point. Tie off and break off the excess tinsel. 7. Tie in a reddish copper colored fine ostrich herl and wrap a joint to cover the body tinsel tie in point. 8. Tie in a black & white barred Kori body feather having long individual fibers like heron Spey hackle, and wrap about 5 turns as a Spey hackle as the fiber count is sparse on this feather. Tie off and clip off the excess. 9. Tie in a brown speckled Kori body feather and wrap a 3 turn collar, tie off and cut off the excess. 10. Tie in a wing comprising a pair of matched brown speckled Kori flight feather slips in the PNW Spey style. Cut off butts. 11. Wrap a proportional head, whip finish, cement the head, and apply finish coat. © 2007 Bruce E Harang Click the BACK button on your browser to return to the fly pattern index page. |
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