Copper John
Tying instructions:
- Place bead on hook and put hook in vise.
- Tie on and wrap thread to shank, tie on pheasant
fibers for tail. (I like my tail as long as the shank as I believe the added
length gives better action and more takes in the water)
- Tie down pheasant tail up to a little more than midpoint of shank.
- Wind with copper wire in tight turns as for a brassie.
- Tie in flash back and peacock herl. Bring the pheasant fibers forward to eye
of hook and leave sticking out in front. Move thread back to tie in point of peacock.
- Make a peacock herl rope and wind to head, tie off.
- Bring flash back over and tie off.
- Bring front of pheasant tail fibers back and tie down as with a
pheasant tail nymph, trim to length.