Torp’s North Country Fly.

Hook                       #14

Tying thread            Georgio Benecchi - light olive.

Hackle                     Grey Partridge dyed in picric acid.

Body                        Orange-red Lure Flash twisted around the tying thread - waxed with very tacky wax ,  and  dubbed with a blend of Yellow SLF and Poul Jorgensen Highlander SLF in equal parts.

To use a thread with ‘metallic’ flash is inspired by an article in the magazine "Tout and Salmon" in the 1950^th by Frank Sawyer. He gave his pattern for an imitation of the ‘Summer Spurwing’ – Centroptilum pennulatum, in which he used a special tying thread, ‘gold covered orange thread’. For many years I speculated over this material until I got the idea to wrap ‘Lure Flash’ around a thread and then give it a very fine application of soft, tacky wax and then dub the wool unto the ‘thread’ in a way described by the American Wayne LuAllen:
Take a pinch of the dubbing between the jaws of a pair of tweezers and touch the ‘thread’- held tight – with the dubbing without any contact between tweezers and thread! By this one can get a very fine application of the dubbing, so that even after it’s twisted the colour of the thread can be seen.
I always twist the material ‘anti-clockwise’ around the thread; but during a fly tying session at the annual Fly Fishing Days in Elverum/Norway I became aware, that what I call anti-clockwise an American calls clockwise. Why? The drawings underneath I do hope makes it clear..