H&L Variant

Materials

How to Tie the H&L Variant

1. 1

   Step 1

   Start the thread behind the eye and wrap a base back to the bend.

2. 2

   Step 2

   Cut a small clump of white calf body hair, pull out the underfur and short hairs, and even the tips. Tie it in at the bend for the tail and trim the butts.

3. 3

   Step 3

   Tie in a stripped peacock quill at the bend. Wrap it forward in touching turns over the rear of the shank for a segmented body, then tie it off and trim.

4. 4

   Step 4

   Tie in peacock herl in front of the quill body and wrap it forward to build a full thorax. Tie off and trim, leaving room behind the eye.

5. 5

   Step 5

   Cut a second clump of white calf body hair for the wing, clean out the underfur, and even the tips in a stacker.

6. 6

   Step 6

   Tie the clump in on top of the shank ahead of the thorax with the tips pointing over the eye. Trim the butts and bind them down.

7. 7

   Step 7

   Lift the wing upright and build thread wraps tight against its front so it stands up on its own.

8. 8

   Step 8

   Divide the wing into two equal bunches and separate them with figure-eight wraps.

9. 9

   Step 9

   Prepare a brown hackle and a grizzly brown hackle and tie both in at the base of the wing.

10. 10

    Step 10

    Wrap the brown hackle forward behind and in front of the wing and tie it off. Wind the grizzly brown hackle through it the same way, tie off and trim both tips.

11. 11

    Step 11

    Form a small head, whip finish and cut the thread.