Fly Tying: Hair-Wing Drake
The Hair-Wing Drake as seen outside, and at the edge of, the fish’s window.
I promised a tying piece that related to the “big mayfly” illustration in a previous post, so here it is: the Hair-Wing Drake. This particular pattern goes back a few decades, and has its roots in the Comparadun and various extended-body deer-hair patterns. Tie it in whatever color scheme you need.
Like some of the previous tying posts, this one is a cut-n-paste (from Designing Trout Flies). GB already wrote the tying instructions for this pattern, and I already illustrated those instructions, so why not just re-use them? Well, that’s what I’m doing, and here they are:
