Hook: TMC 518 #32
Thread: UNI 17/0 Trico
Tail: Mayfly Tails
Body: Fly-Rite Extra Fine Poly Yellow
Wing: Hareline Para Post Wing Dark Grey
Tying the spent spinner in a #32 hook, mostly for practice. I really need to get a magnifier to get the tails and dubbing on correctly!
Hook: TMC 518 #32
Body: TMC 16/0 for attaching the CDC, Sheer 14/0 for the body
Wing: White CDC
This pattern comes from the “Tying small flies” book by Ed Engle, a very good book about just that: tiny small flies in all its variants.
Hook: TMC 518 #32
Body: TMC 16/0
Hackle: Smallest hackle from a Whiting Bronze dyed brow
I really enjoy the challenge of tying on a #32, here I practice on tying in the smallest hackle feathers I can get of my Whiting cape. To take a idea and bring it down from #12 to #32 challenges both your imagination, your stock of material and your eyesight!
This pattern is one of the simpler to tackle in this size, as long as you can get the hackle small enough.
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