This beautiful fly was tied by Terje Refsahl and he uses a woven body technique shown below step-by-step. In the step-by-step Terje uses antron yarn to better show how to make the woven body. On this finished fly the material used is micro stretch tubing. With the combination of the micro stretch tubing and the technique below you get the body you see here.
cdc loop wing mayfly emerger
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- Tie In two pieces of antron yarn
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- Tie it back to the hook gap
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- Turn the vise around towards you, with the hook eye pointing directly towards you. Make a loop with the dark yarn (top yarn) over the hook and under the yarn on the other side.
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- Take the crochet needle down to the loop hole, under the hook and go up and get the yarn on the other side. Take it with you through the loop on the downside of the hook.
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- Drag it through…
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- Like this…
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- Tight knot
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- Real tight
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- Now make a new loop but this time under the hook and over the yarn on the other side of the hook…
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- Go with the needle from under the loop, through it and over the hook…
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- Get the yarn from the other side by taking it with you over the hook and through the loop
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- Like this…
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- Take both your hands and make another tight knot…
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- Keep up the same procedure from picture one and it will become something like this…
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