Learn how to tie the Shuttlecock
The Shuttle Cock is a classic styled emerger. This versatile little fly will become one of your favorites. The CDC puff is always a great emerger component. The slim body with the MFC body rib in the variation is elegant. Adding the Beaver Dubbing for the thorax The Shuttle Cock is a classic styled emerger. This versatile little fly will become one of your favorites. The CDC puff is always a great emerger component. The slim body with the MFC body rib in the variation is elegant. Adding the Beaver Dubbing for the thorax makes this one deadly hatching bug. It can be varied to imitate mayflies or midges. It is also able to be fished as an emerge on its way up through the column, stuck in the film or floating as a newly hatched dry. All in all, a great fly!
Ingredients & Recipe
- Hook: 2488H or 2488 Size 18
- Thread: UTC Olive, You may also use Veevus
- Wing: CDC Puffs Brown
- Body – Veevus Body Quill Gold
- Thorax – Beaver Dubbing Tan
- Vise – Mongoose Vice
- Scissors – Dr. Slick Arrow Point
- Bodkin – Rising Stout Bodkin
- Whip Finish – Tiemco Midge Whip Finish
- Tool Kit – Loon Tool Kit
