Articulated Flies (variants of String Leeches) - Part 2: Articulated Grayling, step by step

Make "articulated base" with a hook on a string.  The weighted fore part has a shank of a big double hook and a sinker - flat piece of lead.  The total length of this base for taimen fly should be 8-10 cm.  

 

Start with the "decoration" of the hook:

Tie on a bunch of white bucktail, make several half-hitches, and cut the line.  Put on the knot some head-cement.

 

 Tie on a bunch of white synthetic fibers or bucktail

add brown ostrich 

 and two dyed red grizzly hackle - one of east side of the fly

top with some strands of Copper Crystal Flash

and dark brown ostrich 

Make a head out of braided mular tubing

tie it near the hook eye

Glue the eyes 

and fihish the fly. 

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"Grayling" works well for Siberian taimen is such rivers as Bichi & Tugur. 

To be continued