Tying Instructions: ParaWulff

1. Insert hook in the vise and attach the thread in the middle of the shank. Wrap the thread to the 1/4 position on the hook shank behind the eye. Step One
2. Clip a bunch of Calf Body Hair from the hide. Note the uneveness of the hair. Step Two
3. Place the hair in your left hand with the base of the hair exposed. Gently pull out the loose underfur and dispose. Step Three
4. Place the bunch of Calf Body Hair into a Hair Stacker and tamp the stacker on a firm object to even the hairs. Step Four
5. Pull out the stacker cylinder with you left hand exposing the tips of the Calf Body Hair. Step Five
6. Remove the hair from the stacker keeping the tips even. Measure the tips to one hook shank long.
 Step Six
7. Place the end of the measured hair bundle on top of the hook shank at the 1/4 position behind the eye. Holding the hair with your left hand, place a couple of firm thread wraps, pulling upward from the hook shank. Place about 6 more wraps around the base of the hair bundle towards the bend of the hook. Step Seven
8. Lift up on the tag end of the hairs and clip at an angle to give the hair a tapered end.
 Step Eight
9. Lock down the end of the hair bundles with thread wraps. Wrapping back up to the 1/4 position. Step Nine
10. Pull back the Calf Body Hair away from the eye of the hook and apply a small thread dam at the base of the hair to keep the bundle upright. Step Ten
11. Apply some thread wraps around the base of the hair bundle going about an eye length from the shank. Step Eleven
12. Next, attach a small number of Microfibetts to the top of the shank behind the hair bundle for a tail. The length of the tail should be equal the hook shank. Step Twelve
13. Splay out the microfibetts by applying a thread wrap under fibetts and a couple of wraps between the fibetts. Wrap the thread back up to the midpoint of the shank. Step Thirteen
14. Now, we divide the hair bundle into two sections. Start be placing the thread from behind the bundle and angle wrap to the front creating two sections.
 Step Fourteen

15. Next, place the thread from the front of the bundle and angle wrap to the rear of the bundle crossing the previous wraps. Basically you have a number of X wraps between the two sections.

 

 Step Fifteen
16. Now, wrap up the post of the nearest section about an eyelength. These some of these wraps may show after the hackle is applied and is the reason we are using a white thread.
Step Sixteen
17. Then, wrap up the post of the section farthest from you, the same eyelength distance.
 Step Seventeen
18. Attach a piece of krystalflash, for a ribbing, to the top of the abdomen to the tail or bend of the hook. Step Eighteen
19. To apply the dubbing, wax the thread.
 Step Nineteen
20. Apply the dubbing to the waxed thread and twist the dubbing tightly to the thread. Step Ten
21. Build a slightly tapered body to the base of the wing. Step Eleven
22. Apply 5-6 wraps of ribbing and secure behind the wing base. Step Twelve
23. Select a Rooster Hackle, either a Cape or a Saddle. Clean the fibers off the base of the hackle and secure the base to the hook shank just behind the eye. The cup of the hackle should face the wing. Step Thirteen
24. Secure the base of the hackle around the base of the wing with thread wraps.
 Step Fourteen
25. Apply some additiional dubbing to the thread and wrap a thorax around the base of the wing. Step Fifteen
26. Wrap the hackle about 4 times wround the base of the wing.
 Step Sixteen
27. Secure the hackle wraps with thread wraps that are below the hackle wraps.
 Step Seventeen
28. Trim off the tag end of the hackle and secure with a couple more turns of the thread beneath the hackle. Secure the thread with a couple of half finishes. Step Eighteen
29. Finally, Whip Finish.
 Step Nineteen
30. The finished ParaWulff Purple.
 Step Nineteen

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