Chevron Hackles

Category: Fly Patterns

  • Pearl Butt Hare’s Ear Spider – Lee Hooper

    Materials

    • Hook : Grip 14731 #14
    • Underbody : Lead wire
    • Body: Hare’s Ear Dubbing
    • Hackle: Chevron Hen Pheasant Cape
    • Butt; Sybai Pearl Flat Tinsel

    Based on a popular spider pattern this makes use of soft hackles from a Chevron Hen Pheasant neck, these give a long mobile hackle in a variety of speckled brown shades.

  • The Killer Bug – Lee Hooper

    Materials

    • Hook Grip 14711BL #12
    • Underbody Lead Wire
    • Body Sybai fine Alpaca Dubbing (Beige: Dark Brown :Pink)
    • Head Pink Sybai Flat Tinsel

    This is a Killer Bug Variant for Greyling. I did not have the classic Chadwicks 477 so blended Sybai Alpaca Dubbing in beige, dark brown and pink in equal proportions for the body.