HANK'S HACKLE FLAPPER
HANK'S HACKLE FLAPPER IMAGE

MATERIALS LIST

  1. Hook - Any 3XL nymph hook. The hook shown is equivalent to a Daiichi 1270, Mustad 80050BR Orvis 1510, Tiemco 200R.

  2. Thread - 6/0 Uni-Thread

  3. Tail - Light elk hair.

  4. Body Hackle - Brown Rooster.

  5. Body - Orange sparkle yarn. I prefer Pumpkin Aunt Lydia's Heavy Rug And Craft Yarn.

  6. Under Wing - Light elk hair.

  7. Over Wing - Brown hackle feathers.

  8. Hackle - Brown rooster hackle.

  9. Head - Orange tying thread.

TYING INSTRUCTION

  1. Insert a hook into the vise, secure the tying thread to the hook and build a thread base from normal head space to hook's bend.

  2. Tail - Stack and tie in at hook's bend a clump of 20 to 25 light elk hair strands with the tips extending rear ward approximately 1/4 hook's shank length. Trim any excess elk hair.

  3. Body - Seperate two strands from a three ply length of sparkle yarn. Attach the sparkle yarn at the tail tie in point. Attach the body hackle then wrap the sparkle yarn forward approximately 3/4 of hook's shank length, secure with tying thread and trim any excess yarn.

  4. Body Hackle - Palmer the body hackle to the front of the sparkle yarn body, secure with tying thread and trim any excess hackle.

  5. Underwing - Stack and tie in, at the body tie off point, a 1/2 pencil sized clump of light elk hair that extends to a point even with the tail tips. Trim any excess elk hair.

  6. Overwing - Tie in two brown rooster hackles (delta winged style), concave feather side down, by the tips at the front and on top of the elk hair underwing. Trim the hackles to the same length as the elk hair underwing.

  7. Hackle - Attach two brown rooster hackles at the front ot the wing tie in point and wrap a standard hackle collar forward to normal head head space, secure with tying thread and trim the excess hackle.

  8. Head - Build a tapered tying thread head, whip finish and cement if you like.

NOTES

I discovered Hank's Hackle Flapper in the early spring of 1984 in an issue of Salmon Trout Steelheader. The article was written by Oregon flyfisher Hank Botlemeyer and describes how the fly was originated. Hank was fishing the Stonefly hatch on Oregon's Deschutes River using a size 4 Caddis Bucktail with no success. Suddenly the Caddis Buck produced a nice Deschutes redside and then another. After the second fish was landed Hank inspected the fly and found the hackles had come loose and were flapping about. Well as I remember the story Hank retired the messed up but effective Caddis Buck to be duplicated later. Hank wasn't a fly tier so he took the messed up Caddis Buck to a tier whose name escapes me and the fly pictured here is the result. What a result! Hank's Hackle Flapper needs to be in the top 3 adult stonefly list. If someone knows the correct spelling of Hank's name please let me know. EMAIL HERE

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