Rusty Spinner Recipe 👉 He starts with a TMC 2302 size 14 dry fly hook. For calm water light dun paired CDC wings tied full-spent or half-spent are deserving of the confidence I place in them.
One of the most well known fly tyers and fly fishermen of the area was Rusty Gates who owned Gates Au Sable Lodge in Grayling. Rusty Spinners can be a tough fly to fish mainly because theyre so hard to see as they ride low in the water and are generally fished at dark. Dark Reddish-Brown Deer Hair dyed flared at the bend in in the hook.
Im going to tie this on a size 16 Dai-Riki 305 dry fly hook but you should also carry 14s and 18s.
Each offers a neat method for splaying the tails and keeping the wings perpendicular to the hook. Medium dark dun turkey flats or poly yarn snowshoe. Brown Grizzly mixed. Start your thread on the hook shank immediately behind the eye and take thread wraps rearward all the way to above the barb before snipping or breaking off the tag.