Quigley's Hackle Stacker Dun
When Bob Quigley, famous for the Quigley Cripple, asked if we were interested in a couple of his new patterns we couldn't wait to see them. This fly is similar to a design the late Buz Buszek Recipient Ned Long used to use but it also has a neat new twist. We think you'll love it as much as we do. Be sure to tie it in a range of sizes and colors because it is a pattern that is effective the year around on any Idaho water where mayflies live. Right now the blue winged olive is a hot pattern and we suggest you try a Hackle Stacker version. We predict you won't be sorry!
Quigley's Hackle Stacker Dun
Tied by: Bob Quigley, Harbor, OregonHook: Size 10 to 20, Mustad R50, 94840, 80000BR, Daiichi 1100, 1180, Eagle Claw LO59, LO60, TMC 100, 5210, or DaiRiki 300, 305, 320
Thread: Olive, Gudebrod BCS#30, Uni-Thread Olive, Danville 60
Tail: Sparse bundle of Z-lonBody: Olive dubbing
Wing & hackle: Whiting or Ewing medium dun
Stacker loop: Monofilament
Thorax: Closed cell foam
Head: Thread
Tying Instruction
1. Build a thread base that covers the back three-fourths of the hook shank and leaves the thread at the bend. Prepare a sparse clump of black Z-lon and attach it as a tail that is equal in length to the hook shank. Dub an olive body that covers the back three-quarters of the hook.
2. Loop a four inch section of monofilament and bind it tightly on the hook directly in front of the dubbed body. Trim any excess mono then tie a sized, dry fly hackle on the hook tight in front of the mono-loop. We chose to use a gallows tool to assist in wrapping the hackle around the loop.
3. Place the loop in the gallows tool, then wrap the hackle up the loop about five turns and then back down to the hook shank. Tie the unwrapped hackle to the hook shank just in front of the "loop" and trim the excess.
4. We found the loop with attached hackle got in our way for this step so we tilted the gallows tool back to get the hackle out of our way. NOTE: When you tilt the gallows back, be sure to relax some of the tension on the mono-loop. Al tore his first loop/hackle off the hook at this stage when testing the tying instructions. Be warned!
5. Wrap the thread forward to just behind the hook eye. Trim a strand of fine closed cell foam about as wide as one-third of the hook gape. Tie on this strip at the hook eye and make several wraps of foam back and forth forming a small round thorax. Tie it off and trim the excess at the hook eye. Color the foam with a felt tip marker if desired.
6. Remove the hackle-stacker loop from the gallows tool and pull it up and over the foam thorax and bind it at the hook eye. Fold the mono back over itself and anchor it with a few more thread wraps. Whip finish, trim, and apply head cement.
Other Resources:
Books:
Fly Pattern Encyclopedia: Federation of Fly
Fishers
by Al Beatty & Gretchen Beatty, Frank Amato Pubns; (September 2000)
Fly Tying Made Clear and Simple by Skip Morris, et al (Spiral-bound - September 1992)
Trout Flies: The Tier's Reference by Dave Hughes; Hardcover
Complete Book of Western Hatches: An Angler's Entomology and Fly Pattern Field Guide by Rick Hafele, Dave Hughes (Paperback - May 1981)
Jack Dennis Western Trout Fly Tying Manual by Jack Dennis
Montana, Idaho, Wyoming Top 45 Fishing Waters
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