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PMDS
Tied by Hans Weilenmann |
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Hook: #16 dry fly hook
Hackle: Sandy dun
Thorax: Single black ostrich herl
Thread: Tan 8/0
Abdomen: Tan mink dubbing
Tail: Two brown mink guard hairs, tied split
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| Tying Instructions |
(Instructions assume right handed tier)
Note:No need to snip the mink components from a mink fur coat belonging to a passer-by. Several flyshops carry mink tails. They are not very expensive and provide copious amounts of tailing material, as well as heaps of super quality ultra-fine dubbing.
- Attach thread immediately behind the eye of the hook with three partly
overlapping turns. Make sure you leave a reasonable tag end of thread,
approx 4-5 inches. You will be using this thread section a little later in the
pattern.
- Strip unwanted fibers off the hackle and tie in, tip pointing over the eye
and shiny side up, on top of shank.
- Tie in ostrich herl butt immediately behind the hackle tie in point, again
with the remainder of the herl pointing over the eye.
- Wrap touching turns of thread to two-fifth shank length behind the eye,
tying down hackle and ostrich as you go along. Trim hackle butt, ostrich
herl butt and tag end of thread. Leave thread piece within easy reach ;-)
- Take two mink guardhairs, even tips and tie in on top of shank. Tips
extending past the point where the bend starts, length of tails just over a
shank length. Trap the tail material on top of shank as you wrap thread to
end of shank. Trim guard hair butts.
- Now take the loose section of thread saved a little earlier and hook this
around the bend of the hook, the two ends pointing to the left over the
vise. Pull both ends of the thread _up_ in between the two tail fibers,
effectively creating a V-tail in a horizontal plane. Adjust tension on the
thread to achieve a 90 degrees split between the two tailing strands. Fold
the two tag ends over the shank with right hand, use left hand to make
the initial wrap of thread to secure in place. Tie down and trim excess.
- Apply a _very_ small amount of mink dubbing to the thread and form a
slender, slightly tapered abdomen on the back half of the shank.
- Wrap ostrich herl thorax to meet the abdomen, trap with turn of thread.
Trim excess.
- Wrap hackle over the ostrich in slightly open turns, trap hackle with turn
of thread and then cut through the hackle towards the eye with tightly
held thread. About a turn and a half should get you to being in front of
the hackle. Three turn whip finish and a touch of varnish. Trim excess
hackle tip.
- Slide tips of scissors into the hackle from front of fly just below the eye
and trim hackle close to the body. This will result in a pattern featuring a
spent spinner “imprint’ in the film, yet remain quite easy to spot on the
water for the angler.
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