In keeping with the theme of this swap, I decided to tie up a pattern that consisted entirely of grizzly hackle. Now, I have yet to give this fly the test, but have tried similar patterns and have done well with them. Would love to hear if anyone gets a monster on this one! On with the recipe...

Prepare the grizzly dubbing by clipping the fuzzy bottom portion of a grizzly hackle into small pieces. Use this material as you would any normal dubbing. Dub the body from the bend of the hook up to about the mid-way point. Tie in a good quality grizly hackle and wind on 6 or 8 turns and tie off. Prepare the wings by taking a large grizzly hackle feather and stripping off about half of the lower fibers. Gently pull about a half an inch of the bottom fibers towards the bottom of the feather. Holding the bunched fibers with one hand attach a hackle plier (the plastic type work best) to the bunched fibers. Make sure the result looks as you want it to and then carefully clip off the tip section. I usually do up as many of these as I have hackle pliers. Next,coat the fibers with head cement or nail polish and allow them to dry. Tie them in one at a time so that they cross each other. Trim off the stems so that they extend about a half an inch in front of the hook eye. If you have problems with one of the wings not laying flat apply a drop of head cement between the two wings and gently hold them together until the cement drys. It really isn't as difficult to tie as it sounds and makes a very realistic fly.

Happy fishin'...enjoy...byard