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Step 2: Clip off a small bundle of white calf's hair, or calf's tail hair. Separate loose strands, and clip to a uniform length on one end.
Step 3: Tie the clump about 1/3 of the hooks length from the eye, pointing towards the eye. Then, wrap thread around in front of the hair to make it stick up straight in a bundle. Make several figure 8 turns through the middle of the hair to split the hair into two wings. By wrapping tightly, loosely, one wing on its own, in front of the wings, behind the wings, etc. you should be able to create two wings of equal size, that are straight and stick just slightly to the side of straight up from the hook.
Step 4: Wrap the thread to the back of the hook, and make a tail using several black hackle fibers.
Step 5: Dub brown dubbing from the back of the hook towards the wings, stopping a fractions of an inch short of the wings. There should be enough room left between the dubbing and wings to tie on two hackle feathers, and wrap each two or three times.
Step 6: Where the hackle stops, tie on two hackle feathers, one brown and one grizzly.
Step 7: Wrap the grizzly hackle to just short of the hook's eye, so that room is left for a head. Tie off the feather, and clip excess. Make sure that there are no excess hackle fibers or thread over the hook eye, that would make threading tippet through the eye difficult.
Step 8: Repeat step 7 using the grizzly hackle.
Step 9: Wrap the thread around the hook several times right behind the eye, to create the head. Tie off the thread, add a drop of cement, and clip excess.
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