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Prom Dress

 | By Seamus on 9/21/2012 10:15:24 PM | Views (216)

Prom Dress: Designed by Scott Howell
Shank: Fish Skull intruder shanks 35mm
Dubbing Ball: Pearl or Red ice dub
Tail/collar: Guinea Natural
Back wing/front wing: Silver Holographic Flashabou
Body: silver diamond braid
Hackle: silver hackle flash
Eyes: medium eye ballz

Great fly for swinging any time of year and in a multitude of colors. Try purple, blue, black/chrt, copper, pink or your own favorite color and you will not be disappointed. This version is tied a little different from the original only because as fly tiers we can't leave well enough alone.

First things first we have to tie in our 30# fireline on the new fish skull intruders shanks available here at the shop.


Next we need a little dubbing ball at the rear with either red or pearl ice dubbing.


Next step is to tie in our Guinea at the tip and palmer nice and neat and tie off.


Next we need to tie in about 14 strands of our chosen color of flashabou in the middle nearest us on the side of the hook keeping it on the top half.


After you have it tied in fold the forward facing section back and tie off on the far side of hook something like this. Very important with the flash to keep it on the top half of the hook.


Next we need to tie in our hackle flash and then our diamond braid and advance thread about 3/8 of an inch from hook eye.


The next 2 steps will be to wrap body with diamond braid and about 5 wraps of hackle flash.


Next we need another guinea feather tied in at the tip and palmered just like the first one we did at the back of the hook.

Repeat the flashabou steps. Tie in about 14 strands in the middle on near side and fold back forward facing flash to far side of hook again keeping everything on the top half of the hook.


Next we are going to tie in our eyes leaving enough room between hook eye and form a dubbing loop with pearl ice dub. If you don't want to do a dubbing loop just leave thread behind eyes and with pearl ice dub finish head.

We have finished our dubbing loop and whip finished.

Next we are going to take our scissors and gently use one edge to pick out any tangles in our dubbing loop.

Head is neatly finished and we are ready to work on another one.

A few with a little chartreuse thrown in at the head. That's alot of bling.


Silver, purple, and silver/Chartreuse will all work well, but don't forget to try the other colors mentioned above as well or your own personal favorites.

Good Luck

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This Fishing Report was submitted on 9/21/2012 10:15:24 PM by Seamus and last updated on 9/21/2012 10:15:24 PM.


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