Updated 7th February 2006

Fly Number 8 Royal Wulff

Materials Size 10  Mustad Hook…size supplied by club, extra smaller sizes provided for more adventurous tiers

Grey deer hair tail

Peacock hurl body

Red silk collar

Gloyarn 1300 Den White wing

Brown hackle and black tying silk

For those tiers lucky enough to be on the net, this will be our fly for Feb2006, the last of our comp flies for 2005. So you get a sneak peak. All materials will be supplied as per usual. We will be tying on a size 10 or equivalent mainly for demonstration purposes. Tie your own onto size 14 when you have had enough practice. Your tying kit will have a range of hooks from 10 –14 so happy tying. The competition fly is on a size 10!!!!

Tie in a base of black thread.  Nip off 10 strands of deer fur, pull away the bum fluff and place pointy end into a deer hair stacker. Tap it a few times and carefully remove from the stacker,  Remove excess bum bluff again  and place on hook, pointy end pointing away from the hook. About 2/3 of the length of the shank. Loosely tie in the deer hair as pulling it too tight will cause nit to flare up. Tie back towards the eye and trim away excess deer hair.

Tie in one strand of peacock and form back part of body. Look at your hook, you need to finish the body about half way along the hook. So the peacock basically forms a body about 1/6 of the hook length. Tie in red silk collar. Tie in another strand of peacock. Make sure that the body finishes about half way. If you finish two thirds away along the hook, you are wasting your time..trust me!

Tie in the wing case half way between the eye of the hook and where the body finishes and make it v shaped. The wing should be at the 10 O'clock and 2 O'clock position. Tie in brown hackle and wind three turns behind the wing and three turns in front of the wing. Use your thread to wind through the hackle to make it strong. Tie off the head and seal with head varnish. 

Voila, a beautiful fly. One of my favourite dries. Happy tying.

Steve Varga