How to Make the General Practitioner Fishing Fly Part 1/2
Next, the general practitioner, a very complicated fly. We’re going to tie the unique fly here called the General Practitioner. This is a shrimp or if you will a prawn pattern and it’s generally very effective on Salmon that is just coming out of the salt water, an hour and the fresh water in that feeding but remembering their last meal very clearly. Sometimes they attacked these things with abandon. This is a finish fly here. This is what it’s going to look like when we’re all done and we’ll just take it through the various steps. It may look hard but it’s really not just a question in getting the right materials and following a few simple techniques and procedures.
The first thing we have to do since this is generally tied in a double hook is learn how to knob a double hook in our device. You insert the four bars into the hook and you mount it at a downward angle as you see here because then after you clasp the hook into place you will rotate the vice and then turn it into shaft and by doing so the hook comes out flat. So your vices are at somewhat of an angle and that makes the correction for the fact that we have that second hook back there which is also an angle. With that we use hot orange thread for this fly and I’m just going to run it down the hook here like this. It’s not an important that you have to cut the whole thing. Materials will do that for you but it will just create a little bit of the base here and work to the rear. And you see here I got a little bit of extra thread to make sure that the double hook portion is held in place properly. Now that’s where we start. We see the thread hanging right there.
This is a golden fest of skin, since she’s got a lot of gorgeous feathers not to use for many, many operation in salmon fly time and we’re going to use quite a few of them in the time of this particular fly. So, I’m going to get one of these nice big long feathers out of here. It looks like that and I’m going to get rid of the stuff. We don’t want to dull material around the sides and then I’m going to wed it so that the fibers are held together momentarily and tighten it right here shredding around the hook, passing the thread up and over and hangs the rear as you see here. Not a difficult technique at all and this part gets strained off.
The next piece of material that goes into place is another feather of the Golden Pheasant. This feather is small and is found high up on the neck of the bird and it’s not just to cover up the darkish portion in there so that the head of the shrimp is about the same color as using the antenna and you get that nice reddish-orange reflect throughout. I might say at this point, we’re going to use several feathers like this in different components of the fly. If you have to, look in these to lie flat. You can put the tiniest bit of zappy gap right there and just rub it until it’s dry. That’s not mandatory but sometimes it helps. This just simply gets laid in place like this. We bring the thread up over the delta of the feather to keep it flat and there’s the head in place and we trimmed.
The next operation is to create the front part of the body. The body is tied in two segments and each one consists of gold ribbing, hot orange yarn and a body hackle over. I recommend that you first tie in the yarn. So it goes like this. As you can see that’s nice hot orange and fill it in yarn. This is Yoni yarn which is especially composed for fly time. Put that back into the material slip if you wish. The next thing you’re going to tie in is the gold tensile. This gets tied over the backside of the hook in this position. This should be medium oval gold tensile. Not too thick and on the other hand not so thin that you don’t get the desired effect.
Now we’re going to tie on the hackle. Before we tie on the hackle, this is not mandatory but I would suggest it. You remember how we have been folding these hackles? This hackle looks better if you do that. You have a nice swept back appearance that looks like those little trailing fillers that you see hanging else the bottom of any shrimp. These hackles fold very easily. That’s just the hot orange sidle hackle. You see the way that looks after you fold it, folding simply as a matter of keeping the quail straight under tension and stroking down which the ribbing goes to the same side of the quilt and it’s tied in. This is what we have been doing by this little delta, tighten first.
Now we’re going to move the thread halfway down the hook creating a base as we go. You don’t even have to trim off that part there if you don’t want to. That’s all going to get varied. You stop right there. The first thing we wrap of course is the yarn. One layer should be sufficient. Just make sure that you make the wrap contiguously. Don’t change any gaps and then replace. If it’s a little heavier at the front and on the back don’t worry because that’s the heaviest part of this animal anyway and if were otherwise that we have done some things to create a different effect. Now we’ll tie that off right here and in the back.
The next thing we wrap is the gold tensile. Now be careful to start that in such a fashion that we begin to wrap the orange hackle is right up against the gold tensile. As in classic salmon fly tying the gold tensile now it provides flash but by wrapping the quill of the feather behind it since it has bulk and substance you actually protect the flow of the feather from being broken. Four five turns are plenty and that gets tied off right here. Very carefully in cutting this is pretty thick tensile get way down into your scissors so you don’t damage them or spring the blades. And now we simply follow the back edge of the gold tensile working forward. Let it for right in the crevice behind that material and lo and behold these things just to look as it should be. At least perhaps to some most are low and there’s the final turn of hackle. Bring it around this side and tie it off and get rid of the excess.
Let’s create a little base right here for the next operation since move thread wraps forth and back. Okay two things go on in this position. In order to accommodate them we’re going to trim off the top hackles. Be careful not to cut down into far and hit the whirl or you go back to square one.
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