Realistic Blue Wing Olive – Fly Tying with Jim Misiura
Jim Misiura’s Realistic Blue Wing Olive
Watch this video to see Jim Misiura tying Realistic Blue Wing Olive using Hemingway’s Realistic Mayfly Wings. Thanks Jim for sharing this great video with us.
Ingredients
To tie Jim Misiura’s Realistic Blue Wing Olive, you need the following:
- Hook: Standard Dry # 12-16
- Tread: Olive
- Tail: Micro Fibbets
- Body: Olive Polish Quills
- Wing: Hemingway’s Realistic Mayfly Wings
- Hackle: Olive CDC
Hemingway’s Realistic Mayfly Wings
CDC Feathers – Light Gray
Steps
To tie Realistic Blue Wing Olive using Hemingway’s Realistic Mayfly Wings:
- Start by putting a base of olive thread down, from eye of the hook half way and come back to half of that.
- Take a Hemingway’s Realistic Mayfly Wings and with shiny side of the wings inside, tie the wing by the white tab.
- Take a pair of micro fibbets and place them right in between of wings. As you tie them you want them to be the approximately the length of the shank. Tie them in. Trim the remainder of micro fibbets.
- Take a hand stripped peacock quill and tie it in. Put some hand cement on and wrap it.
- Take CDC feathers and tie them in. Whip finish it.
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