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Hook: Shrimp Caddis #12-#18
Thread: Olive 8/0
Body: Medium Olive Dubbing
Rib: Gold oval Tinsel
Wing: Deer Hair
Cheeks: Holographic Gold flat tinsel

Tying Instructions:
First tie on your thread to the hook. Now attach the gold oval tinsel or ribbing to the back of the hook, do not wrap it forward yet. No dub the body forward about 3/4 of the way up the hook shank. After dubbing the body forward, you can now wrap the ribbing material forward to the same point and tie it off. Now cut two small strips of flat gold tinsel for the cheeks of the fly. These are to by attached where you stopped dubbing the body forward. Have these pointing back on the hook in the direction a tail would be. Now cut off a small tuft of deer hair and use a hair stacker to stack the tips evenly. Attach this just behind the eye of the hook as the wing, making sure the hair sticks up at about a 45 degree angle. Now using the same dubbing material as you used for the body, make a small head covering the butt ends of the deer hair. Then take the two strips of tinsel that are attached to the side of the head of the fly and fold them over the sides of the heads and tie them down behind the eye of the hook. Tie off your thread for the finished fly.

Fly Information:
This fly was devised by an Orkney angler, Norman Irvine. His original intention was to fish the fly as an emerger to imitate hatching midge. Since then the fly has proved itself in many other situations. The natural flash of the fly, can get the fishes attention and yet it has an outline that fits the description of many emergers. It should be fished in the surface film of the water, the problem with this fly can be locating where it is in the water. To fix this you can use a 2nd dry fly to help find the location of it so you can see the strikes better.