Stimulator Fly

January 22, 2016 By Charlie Craven

Stimulator Fly Recipe:

Hook: TMC 2312 #6-16

Thread: Fire orange 70 denier

Tail: Yearling elk

Rib: Fine Copper Wire

Abdomen: Yellow Antron Dubbing

Abdomen Hackle: Brown Rooster Neck hackle

Wing: Yearling Elk

Thorax Hackle: Grizzly Rooster Neck Hackle

Thorax: Fire Orange Antron Dubbing

The Stimulator Video:

Stimulator Step-by-Steps:

Tying The Stimulator

Tying The Stimulator Step 1 of 13

Start the thread at the seventy percent point and wrap back to the bend. Build a small ball of thread at the bend of the hook.

Tying The Stimulator Step 2 of 13

Cut, clean and stack a small clump of elk hair and tie it in at the bend to form a tail that is about as long as the hook gap is wide.

Tying The Stimulator Step 3 of 13

Wrap forward over the butt ends of the hair to just past the midpoint and clip the excess hair butts. Tie in a piece of wire and wrap back over it to the bend.

Tying The Stimulator Step 4 of 13

Dub a tapered abdomen with the yellow dubbing.

Tying The Stimulator Step 5 of 13

Tie in a brown rooster hackle at the front of the body.

Tying The Stimulator Step 6 of 13

Palmer the brown feather back to the bend over the abdomen and catch the tip of the feather with the wire rib. Wind the wire forward to the front of the body and tie it off at the front of the hook. Clip the tip of the hackle feather at the back and the extra wire at the front.

Tying The Stimulator Step 7 of 13

Cut, clean and stack a larger clump of elk hair and measure it from the front of the body to the mid-point on the tail.

Tying The Stimulator Step 8 of 13

Tie the base of the elk hair in at the front of the body with several tight turns of thread. Clip the butt ends as close as possible to the hook shank.