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Hook: Dry Fly #16-#18
Thread: Black 8/0
Body: Black Ostrich Herl
Hackle: Grizzly
Wing: Bleached Coastal Deerhair or Bleached Comparadun Hair or light, fine deerhair
Shuck & Rib: Krystal Flash - rootbeer

Tying Instructions:
Wrap the hook shank with tying thread, ending just before the bend of the hook. Fold over a 3"-4" length of Krystal Flash and tie in the two loose ends as if you were tying in a tail. Pull the remaining loop of the material back toward the tail and tie down so that all pieces are pointing flat to rear. Take scissor and cut the loop so that opens into two pieces, one long one, and one the same length as the two 'tails' tied in previously. Trim three 'tails' to no longer than 3/16". Tie in the Ostrich Herl so that the fibers are pointing rearward. Palmer densely to about 5/8th the way toward the hook eye. Tie off the end and trim. Counter wrap the long end of Krystal Flash through the herl 4-5 times ending at the tie off point of the herl. Stack and clean a small portion of deerhair (coastal deerhair unfortunately contains a large amount of body fur). Tie on top of the hook with the tips pointing forward over the eye, take a few wraps of thread in front of the wing and then back to tie down solidly where the ostrich herl ends. Before you let go of the butt ends of the deerhair, take a scissor and trim them off with a slanted cut to form a wingcase. Tie in a grizzly feather, slightly oversized is fine, wrap twice around the black thread mark that ties the deerhair butts, then carefully tie off the feather, trim, and glue the small amount of thread in front of the wing, but in back of the hook eye. Grab the clump of deerhair that forms the emergent wing, and pull forward and upward to cock the wing at no more than a 45-degree angle upwards.

Fly Information:
To fish this fly, grease only the hackle and wing post. Do not use floatant on the body or shuck (tail). Ideally, you want the flash material, bend of the hook and the body to drop below the surface film. This is an extremely effective fly that is best used right at the start of a mayfly emergence. It has caught rainbows, brown trout, landlocked atlantic salmon, and grayling on both stillwater and streams. It has been fished in the US and was the most effective overall fly in a trip to the UK. Fish take it slowly and confidently and rarely exhibit any caution. That behavior indicates they recognize it as a crippled emerger rather than a fly that is about to hatch out and escape. Because of the high contrast of the materials, the lively black herl body and the use of flash material for the shuck and segmentation, this pattern could be described as an attractor cripple.