This is one of the flies that cannot be missing in the box of any dry fly addict. The attractor pattern is similar to the Irresistible Adams in its design. It has great buoyancy because it is tied with deer hair and it is also highly visible, even in the last hours of the day due; a feature that Lee View more...This is one of the flies that cannot be missing in the box of any dry fly addict. The attractor pattern is similar to the Irresistible Adams in its design. It has great buoyancy because it is tied with deer hair and it is also highly visible, even in the last hours of the day due; a feature that Lee Wulff used in some of his patterns: White, Royal and Ausable Wulff. These characteristics make it an ideal fly for rough waters.Lee Wulff created the Gray and White Wulff because he liked the fan-winged Royal Coachman but found the wings too flimsy and fragile. He asked tyer Reuben Cross of Neversink, New York, to dress a Royal Coachman with a more robust wing. Reuben asked his suppliers to send him suitable material that was stiff, white and kinky. They sent him Impala tails that were ideal for the task. It was originally given the name of the Quack Coachman by members of the Beaverkill Trout Club. It looked very similar to the more popular Wulff dry flies and gradually became known as the Royal Wulff.It´s a pretty complicated fly to tie for those that have no experience handling deer hair or for those that don’t have the right kind of hair material, the best being short and fine deer hair #1. When tying small sized imitations it is better to use caribou hair.Quality scissors must be used to trim the deer body hair correctly, or even using a sharp razor blade is good to shape the fly.Although recommended hook sizes range from #10 to #16, #8 sized Irresistible Wulff flies are known to be really effective when trout fishing in lakes.
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List of materials
MATERIALSHook: TMC 100, sizes # 8 to #16.Thread: 8/0 or 6/0, brown.Tail: moose body hair.Body: fine deer hair or caribou.Wings: White calf body hair.Hackle: Brown.
Steps
Step 1
Tie a bunch of moose hair to make the tail.
Step 2
Tie a deer body hair bunch and compress it right where the fly´s tail begins.
Step 3
Tie one or two more bunches until half of the hook shank is completed.
Step 4
Shape the deer hair in a conic shape, trimming it with scissors or a razor blade.
Step 5
Tie a white calf hair bunch.
Step 6
Separate in equal sections the calf hair. Wrap with several thread turns in its bases so that these are V-shaped and in a right-angle position (perpendicular) to the hook shank.
Step 7
Tie a rooster feather. Its fibers length should be 1 ½ of the hook gape length.
Step 8
Wrap the rooster feather to make the fly´s hackle.
