	THE SOCKEYE COPPER FLY Courtesy of Max AKA FlashBackMax Materials Hook- Regular up-eye salmon hook, I'm using size 6 Thread- Brown 8/0 Tag- Gold tinsel Rib- Gold Wire Dubbing- copper ice dub Hackle- pheasant soft-hackle feather Wing- bronze or light brown calf tail Step 1 - Insert the hook into the vice and wrap about half the shank with thread Step 2 - Near the end of the thread tie in a piece of gold wire Step 3 - Tie in the tinsel. Incidentally when tying in tinsel, if you want one side to show, tie it in with the side you want to show facing down. When you wrap it the tinsel will roll over on itself revealing the side you want. Step 4 - Wrap up the tinsel and tie it off Step 5 - Counter-wrap the gold wire up and tie it off Step 6 - Dub on a small amount of the ice dub and wrap it into almost a ball at the end of the tinsel. This will give the hackle something to rest against so it doesn't lay flat. Step 7 - Select a copper colored pheasant hackle, but make sure the fibers aren't too long. Tie it in directly in front of the dubbing. Step 8 - Wrap the hackle a couple of times right on itself. You don't want too much. Better to keep it sparse than heavy. Step 9 - Take your fingers and comb back the fibers and wrap the thread back over them slightly. This will tilt them back. Step 10 - Add a little more dubbing right in front of the feather. Step 11 - Tie in a very sparse amount of the calf tail. It should be about one and one-half the length of the hook shank, or perhaps just a little less. Tie off the fly, give it a drop of head cement, and you're done! Finished fly. Go see if the red army likes it!!! Courtesy of Max AKA FlashBackMax

THE SOCKEYE COPPER FLY

Courtesy of Max

AKA

FlashBackMax

Materials

Hook- Regular up-eye salmon hook, I'm using size 6

Thread- Brown 8/0

Tag- Gold tinsel

Rib- Gold Wire

Dubbing- copper ice dub

Hackle- pheasant soft-hackle feather

Wing- bronze or light brown calf tail

Step 1 - Insert the hook into the vice and wrap about half the shank with thread

Step 2 - Near the end of the thread tie in a piece of gold wire

Step 3 - Tie in the tinsel. Incidentally when tying in tinsel, if you want one side to show, tie it in with the side you want to show facing down. When you wrap it the tinsel will roll over on itself revealing the side you want.

Step 4 - Wrap up the tinsel and tie it off

Step 5 - Counter-wrap the gold wire up and tie it off

Step 6 - Dub on a small amount of the ice dub and wrap it into almost a ball at the end of the tinsel. This will give the hackle something to rest against so it doesn't lay flat.

Step 7 - Select a copper colored pheasant hackle, but make sure the fibers aren't too long. Tie it in directly in front of the dubbing.

Step 8 - Wrap the hackle a couple of times right on itself. You don't want too much. Better to keep it sparse than heavy.

Step 9 - Take your fingers and comb back the fibers and wrap the thread back over them slightly. This will tilt them back.

Step 10 - Add a little more dubbing right in front of the feather.

Step 11 - Tie in a very sparse amount of the calf tail. It should be about one and one-half the length of the hook shank, or perhaps just a little less. Tie off the fly, give it a drop of head cement, and you're done!

Finished fly. Go see if the red army likes it!!!