Hi, welcome back to the fly tying podcast. I'm going to tie a fly by Ed Eagle, Ed Eagle
if you don't know is very famous for fishing tailwaters and being an
advocate of micro fly fishing. This fly is an olive by it done and it's very very
simple to tie. It's about shape and silhouette. There's three or four different
materials which I will use and hit this. I'm starting off with a TMC 101 size 20
hook. Though you can tie this fly down to a size 22 or up to a size 18. Those are
Ed's recommendations. Anyway we'll just go from hook, I'm going to go half way, trim
off. I'm going to firstly add in some micro tail fibers. The good saw for the
which I have found is a paintbrush. I imagine the exactly the same as the ones
you buy. That's a fly tying chop that's about six pounds for probably firtieth
and right. There's a lineman up on the top of the hook. I'm going to bring the tail
down and in. Like so. I'm going to separate the tail and I get the bend of the hook.
I'll just take a turn of thread underneath it. One micro fiber, one micro fiber, one micro fiber, one micro fiber, the other. Bring that back, support it, bring it down and there you go. That tail is now
spraying out. That will help support the fly as it's in the water. Just clip those off at the top. You can easily just color those with a marker pen or you will find some of the
brushes you can get. Here's a paintbrush. Actually have dark fibers in them as well and you can just pick those out. The advantage of having a paintbrush is if you pull your finger along the fiber as you're taking it off the brush, you can get them to kill
up. Just says that you would with a bit of nylon. Okay, next stage is tying an olive green biot here. Let's go catch in at the tail end of it, wind forward, back to there. Because we're going to put a little out of them and we've got to get the
CDT feathers in as well. So, wind that along. This will produce a segmented body along the hook. I've used a dark green one here. I'm going to round it forward, catch it in
with a silk and go back. And if it works, it's almond raffling. Cut that off as close as I possibly can get. Turn it around, trim again. Okay, so we know how the body.
I'm just going to whip that down in a bit more. Okay. Now, I'm going to take three or four CDT feathers. I'm just lining the tips up off camera here. You want to do what I'm doing.
Stroking together, so that it comes nice and tight. I'll go get them so they're all sprayed in the same direction. It's going to put one, two, three, four turns around there. The purpose of this fly is actually the wings going to sit up.
I want to bring that wing down so it's in proportion. Okay. I'm going to come forward underneath so it's nice and strong. I'm going to snip off at the back. Now, sometimes you'll see that as a left or you can whip back over it.
I quite like to leave it because you just, there's a point of buoyancy and there's a spot of buoyancy within it. And then I'm going to use a superfine dubbing. This is a grey-green. You can get superfine dubbings from Waspy, who I believe supply them to people like all this.
So, let's just take a bit behind the wing. Now, you've got to come underneath and really just tip the wing up again. Now, I'm just pulling that away from the thread. Pull it off. There's a little bit there. That will work its way back.
I know I usually do half hitch, but I'm just going to go straight into a whip here because I don't want the head to be too heavy around the whole kite.
Let's see. That's one free. There you have it. Use your fingers. Make a V and the scissors and snip it off. And there you have it. A little olive micro-done of Ed Knox design.
Totally fishable in the UK and around the world. Wonderful little fly.
Anyway, thank you for watching. Hope to see you soon. Bye for now.
