The Dragon Stone
Ken Dreidger
Tied by Wes Newman
    THE DRAGON STONE

    MATERIAL LIST

  1. Hook - Mustad 9049 #4, 9672 #4, or down to # 8, depending on aquatics in your area

  2. Thread - Unithread 6/0: dirty Olive, light yellow, dark brown, or black

  3. Tail - A few flues from Ringneck Pheasant tail

  4. Body - Two appropriate wools, woven

  5. Hackle - Webby Barred Rock

  6. Head - Peacock herl

METHOD

Tie in the tail, and build up the body in a taper using a commercial nymph form, the body wools, or a wedge-shaped piece of thin plastic. Weave the body, and tie off. Take about three turns of hackle. Make head of peacock herl using 2 flues, tied in tip first, and spiralling the tying thread around the delicate flues to make a rope. Finish the head off, and apply your favorite head cement.

COMMENTS

This woven pattern can be sized to aquatics in your area and by altering the body wools can be made to imitate either the dragon fly or the stone fly. Some common colorations are: Dirty yellow and dark brown, Beige/light brown and green, light green and dark brown, beige and dark brown

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