The Rusty
Tying instructions:
Spinning the deer hair and CDC:
Form a dubbing loop at the thorax and rub the thread loop with dubbing wax and hook a dubbing twister to the bottom of the loop. Stack the deer hair. Grab the tips only, and clip the hair as close to your fingers as you can. Open the loop close to the thorax and slide the cut deer hair tips into the loop. If necessary, clip the butts again (while in the dubbing loop - careful not to move the tips). Twist the dubbing loop pretty tightly until a nice hackling of the deer hair occurs. Wrap the thorax with the loop and smooth back the hair as you hackle.
Next, form another waxed dubbing loop with the twisting tool attached to the bottom of the loop. Using the Petitjean tools (www.petitjean.com) "fold" dun colored CDC and clip to an appropriate length of hackle. Having the CDC in the tool or a paper clip; carefully place in the loop near the thorax. Using the twister, turn or spin until the CDC barbules form a nice hackle. Then, hackle in front of the deer hair smoothing the material back with your other hand as you wrap the "hackle"