Fender deer hair emerger

1. Secure your emerger hook in the vice with as much of the hook bend clear of the jaws as possible.

2. Run your tying thread from just behind the hook eye down deep into the bend.

3. Select some long Moose mane hairs.

4. You will need two long hairs from the moose mane, one white and one black.

5. Tie in the moose hairs by the points close to each other, at the base of the hook bend.

6. Build up a slight forward taper on the fly body with tying thread.

7. Take both hairs at once, with the black hair at the bottom and begin to wind on in even tight turns. Make sure you leave no gaps between turns.

8. Continue over the whole hook shank until you come to the thorax. Tie off.

9. Trim off the surplus hair and tie down ends. Although these moose mane hairs are remarkably strong you can give the body a coat with Bug Bond.

10. Cut and stack a small bunch of deer hair. Tie this in as a parachute post.

11. At the base of the hairs from a winter coat of a moose or deer there is a dense under fur. Remove enough to dub the thorax.

12. Dub the thorax behind and forward of the parachute post.

13. Place your finger tip in the centre of the deer hair post and press down until the deer hair flattens and flares out.

14. Place a small drop of Bug Bond or glue, in the center of the deer hair parachute hackle.

15. Give the Bug Bond a zap with the UV light.

16. The finished Fender emerger, made only from deer hair and Bug Bond.

17. The view from below. Its a perfect quick and simple parachute hackle.