The Royal Stimulator  

Ingredients for the Stimulator:

3xl Dry fly hook or curved dry hook  Size 12-16

Elk or deer hair

Yellow superfine dry dubbing

Brown dry fly hackle

Fine copper wire

Orange dubbing

8/0 Orange fly tying thread

Tie on your tying thread, and bring the thread to the bend of the hook. Select a small clump of deer or elk hair.

Stack the hair, trim it, and tie it in as a tail.

Take care not to use too much pressure at first.

Using too much force, may cause the hair to flair out.

Tie in a piece of copper wire. This will be used to rib the fly.

Next start to apply dubbing to the fly

Wrap the dubbing forward to create a nice body that tapers forward.

You will need to dub just over halfway on the hook shank.

Take a piece of brown dry fly saddle hackle.

Prepare the hackle by stripping off a few fibers from the stem.

Tie in the hackle where you finished dubbing.

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Wrap the hackle backwards towards the tail of the fly.

Once you reach the point where the copper wire is tied in, wrap the copper wire forward in the opposite direction of the hackle.

The copper wire will lock the hackle in place, and add durability to your fly.

Tie the wire down, and trim the excess. Trim off the excess hackle.

Select, and prepare another clump of deer or elk hair.

Using the same technique as above, tie down the wing.

Be sure to leave ample space to form the head of the fly.

Take some more brown dry fly hackle, and prepare, and tie it in as above towards the back of the fly.

Add some orange dubbing to your thread, and wrap forward, building up a heavily dubbed head.

Finally, wrap the brown hackle forward, and tie off the excess, and trim.

Add a whip finish to the fly, and a dab of head cement to secure it.

Be creative in the color combinations you choose.