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Tie a bullhead

this fly has been developed from the subbug but instead of deer hair its is tied with ep fibre and the head is a bit easier to do than with deer hair although you still get that great gliding action as what has made the sub bug so devastating

Materials

Ep fibre or sf fibre or ultrahair (whatever colours you like)

Flashbou (pearl)

6/0 ex strong Aberdeen

8mm conical eyes

step- 1 – tie in a few wraps of thread your starting point is just abovethe hook point and you first set of materials for the body will sit

step 2- tie in 4 inchs of white ep fibre on top of the hook then add another 6 inch piece then 6 inchs of flashbou

step 3 – add your back colour in this case a light olive 6 inch piece

step 4 – next add a four inch piece then a 5 inch piece then a 4 inch piece of the same colour this will then give you the body profile you need

step 5 – now its time to start working on building up the head what you need first is to add if you want a throat colour , although if you don’t want to theres no need and you can just stick with white as with the body but make sure the first piece goes on the bottom

step 6 – add a 2 inch piece of ep fibre onto the side as above , add the same length on the opposite side of the hook as well

step 7 – add you back colour now this piece need to be 3 inchs long so theres 2 inchs extending from the back and one inch forward this helps with the profile shape

step 8 – add a couple of inchs of flashbou to either the top middle or bottom whatever takes your fancy you may just want a small bit of flash in the head in which case just tie in one bit on the top or you may want none at all so leave it out

step 9 – now fold all the materials back and hold down with a couple of turns of thread

step 10 - now repeat steps 5,6,7,and 8 until you get to the hook eye , start each new section tight up against the last

step 11 – the two pictures above show what the head will look like before trimming

step 12 – the first cut is right across the bottom then turn the hook around

step 13 – start by snipping small clumps of ep of (remember you cant stick it back on if you get it wrong) and work round the head clipping as you go