Tying the Quill-Bodied Emerger
Tying Materials
- Silk: 70 denier uni-nylon coloured white
- Wing: CDC either natural or dyed (4 feathers)
- Hook: Partridge Emerger size 16 (or size to suit the hatch)
- Tail: Coch De Leon Fibres
- Body: Either natural stripped quill from the eye feather from a peacock or stripped peacock herl.
- Thorax: Fox squirrel or alternatively hare’s ear dubbed and wound (the spikier the better).