Kate McLaren

Materials

How to Tie the Kate McLaren

1. 1

   Step 1

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

2. 2

   Step 2

   Tie in a golden pheasant crest feather at the bend for the tail and trim the waste.

3. 3

   Step 3

   Tie in the small oval silver tinsel at the bend and bind the end along the shank to keep the underbody smooth.

4. 4

   Step 4

   Dub black seal's fur onto the thread and wind a body forward, stopping short of the eye to leave room for the front hackle.

5. 5

   Step 5

   Prepare a dyed black cock saddle hackle and tie it in by the stem at the front of the body.

6. 6

   Step 6

   Palmer the hackle back to the bend in open, even turns.

7. 7

   Step 7

   Wind the tinsel forward through the hackle in open turns, working it between the fibers so it locks the hackle stem down. Tie off the tinsel at the front and trim the hackle tip at the bend.

8. 8

   Step 8

   Prepare a ginger hen or cock hackle, strip the fluff from the base and tie it in at the front of the body.

9. 9

   Step 9

   Wind a few turns of the ginger hackle in front of the body, then tie off and trim the excess.

10. 10

    Step 10

    Form a small, neat head, whip finish and varnish the head.