Spey fly step-by-step – Christian van Hedel

Use a salmon traditional size 4.  Bind wire up to the hook eye (or in the gut) and then wrap backwards.

Fix gold flat tinsel and oval silver tinsel at approximately 1/3 of the hook, measured between the hook point and the hook eye.

Wrap binding wire to the hook point, stopping at third, measured from hook point.

Bend the silver oval tinsel  forward. Wrap the tying thread now up to hook point. Tie only the flat gold tinsel here on the hook. Bring the thread back to the front of the oval silver tinsel. 

Wrap flat gold tinsel forward now to the oval silver tinsel. Fix the flat gold tinsel down.

Cut out of a brown rabbit fur the hair without the undercoat.

You do not need much, but be very sure to remove the woolly undercoat from the hair.  

Wax the thread for the dubbing of rabbit hair. 

Wrap the rabbit hairs to the thread (dubbing).

Wrap the rabbit dubbing forward approximately 2/3 of the hook shank measured from hook point. 

Now tie in a nice spey hackle.

Now wrap the rabbit dubbing forward again and then wrap the flat gold tinsel forward and secure it to the hook eye.

Pull the feather fibers from the spey hackle backwards.

Wrap the spey hackle at the hook eye. Please note, tie it down exactly parallel to the flat gold tinsel.

Now wrap the oval silver tinsel forward, crossing over the others, so in the opposite direction. Bind this at the hook eye. 

Now tie in a grizzey/olive spey hackle.

Find a nice flank feather of a pheasant or heron with long dark feather fibers. 

Grasp the tip of the hackle and separate it from the other fibers. This is to secure it at the hook eye.

Now wrap this two or three times around the hook and then secure it by winding the wire. 

Now select beautiful pieces of bronze mallardveren for the wings. The wings are made up of a left and a right wing. Find parts which match i length and colour.  

Put the pieces of feathers against each other. The concave side facing each other.  

Now place under a wing of bronze mallard on the hook. The lower wing is shorter than the main wing.. Hold the pair of wings above the hook and determine the length you need, fix these with one or two winds. Check and correct the wings if needed. Now tighten with 5 winds.

Fix the main wing in place over the shorter wing. Do this the same as in step 18, the length of the wing must be the same length as the total length of the hook of thread.

Cut off the remnants of the wings as short as possible.  

Now bind everything with black thread. 

Paint the thread with UV resin or epoxy resin. Now you put the wing into the correct position This spey fly is complete.