Phill's Fly-Tying

 Greenwell’s Glory

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Materials:

Hook: D/E sizes 14 to 16

Silk: Well Waxed Yellow

Tail: Brown Partridge (If required)

Body: Yellow Silk with Cobblers; wax applied to give body a greenish-yellow hue

Rib: Fine Gold Wire

Hackle: Coch-y-Bonddu Cock or Light Furnace

Wings: Blackbird tied in and split, sloping back for the wet pattern.

 

Method:

  1. Run the waxed yellow tying silk down to the bend of the hook, then if required tie in the tail.

  2. Tie in a length of fine gold wire ready for ribbing the body.

  3. The body is now built up into a tapered shape with turns of silk this done, neatly rib the body with the fine gold wire, tie off and trim waste.

  4. Tie in two or three turns of Coch-y-Bonddu cock or light furnace hackle just behind the eye and wound in the usual way. Moisten the finger and thumb and sweep the hackles back and down, hold in position, take a couple of turns of silk diagonally around the shank to hold the hackle in place.

  5. The final operation is to tie the paired wings of blackbird over the top of the hackle and sloping well back. According to the original dressing these should be split to finish, but this is rarely practised nowadays.