2/ Take your grizzle cape, preferably a cheap, webby one as used in saltwater tying. This will provide you with hundreds of wings and also the materials to make many midge balls without blowing the budget. Cut off two grizzle hackle points of similar dimensions and hold them back to back. Measure them off against the hook shank so that you have a wing roughly equal in length.

3/ Tie the hackle points in as shown (please excuse the out of focus shot). Wind in being careful not to flare them out by using too much pressure. As you wrap away from the feathers towards the hook eye gradually increase the tension. Trim off any excess from the feather stub and move on.

4/ Now use the thumb and forefingers of your left hand (for right handed tier) to stand the wing upright as desired. Pinch it off in this position and use your right hand to wrap a thread base horizontally around the base of the wing. Every few wraps throw one in that goes around the base of the hook as it will make it all the more stronger. This is the base upon which the parachute hackle will later be tied..

5/ Take the tailing material of your choice tie in as shown. The tail length should be roughly equal to the length of the hook shank. The tail should be tied in a SPLIT V configuration. That is when viewed from above it should be in the shape of a V starting at the rear of the fly. This can be done in several ways although with the microfibbets some simple manipulation as you tie them in or even after will achieve the desired look.

6/ Here we can the see the Split V configuration we talked about in the previous step. This is a wonderful technique to use in combination with a parachute hackle as it helps to float the fly perfectly. We would recommend though that you tie the tail rather sparse as the fish see a lot and a bulky tail often results in refusals, the fly soon looking twice its size.

 7/ Now we can start to make the body. Take a small amount of dubbing and apply it to the thread. Form a thin rope by dubbing (rubbing the dubbing and thread between you fingers in the one direction until it forms a rope). If you are a little more skilled try and form this as a tapering rope, starting thin and getting marginally thicker along its length.

8/ Use the newly formed rope of dubbing to construct the rear body section of your fly or abdomen as it is widely known in fly tying circles. A nice, neat body should be the result and if you finish with something like we have hear you have done it well. Leave the thread hanging below the wing ready for the next step.

9/ Take a hackle feather of the correct size. Strip any unwanted bits from the feather and tie in so that it sits somewhere between parallel to the hook shank and forty five degrees as well as pointing to the rear. In this case tie it in so that it is on the far side of the wing. Then wind the thread to just behind the hook eye.

10/ Now dub a small rope again as in Step 7. This can again be slightly tapered but either way build up the front body section (thorax) by wrapping the dubbed rope back towards the wing. Add more wraps in the one plane if need be the closer you get to the wing to achieve the desired result. Once you have done this remove any excess dubbing that you may have and go to the next step.

11/ Wrap the hackle around the wing post as shown. Do this by winding horizontally in an anticlockwise direction around the post with several turns of hackle, each successive one beneath the previous turn. When you have done this tie off using the thread to catch the hackle against the base of thread on the wing post. Hold the hackle down and way from the fly (on imaginary line between angled vice head and and wing post base) and use clockwise wraps around hackle and wing post base to secure. Pull the thread to the hook eye when done and finish with a couple of half hitches.

12/ Here is the finished product as viewed from above. You will notice that the parachute hackle is not overly dressed. Just enough to float the pattern. Also notice the tapered body starting thin at the rear and gradually getting more bulky.