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Gold Ribbed Hare’s Ear
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| Hook: |
Mustad 9671, Sizes 18 –8 |
| Thread: |
Brown 6/0 |
| Weight: |
Lead wire, size appropriate to hook size (optional) |
| Tail: |
Guard hairs from hare’s mask or brown hackle fibers |
| Rib: |
Fine gold oval tinsel |
| Abdomen: |
Hare’s ear dubbing |
| Wingcase: |
Turkey Quill |
| Thorax: |
Hare’s mask fur with guard hairs |
Tying Instructions
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| Step 1: |
Mount the hook in the vise and attach the thread to hook
using a jam knot at mid-shank and wrap back to the bend.
Wrap a layer of lead from just behind mid-shank to 1/8th
inch behind the eye. Do not crowd the eye.
Cover the lead with thread and apply head cement.
Snip a bit of fur from the hare’s mask.
Draw out the long guard hairs by their tips.
Tie in the guard hairs as a tail.
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| Step 2: |
Tie in the tinsel just behind the lead.
Spiral the thread down the tinsel and shank to the bend.
Spin the hare’s ear dubbing onto the thread and dub a
tapered abdomen to slightly past mid-shank.
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| Step 3: |
Wind the gold tinsel up the abdomen in evenly spaced
spirals. Tie off and trim tinsel end.
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| Step 4: |
Select a section of turkey quill about ˝ as wide as the
shank’s length and tie in where the abdomen ends. Trim butts.
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| Step 5: |
Dub hare’s mask fur (guard hairs included) onto the thread. Make the thorax
thick and rough.
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| Step 6: |
Pull the quill section flatly over the thorax and tie off.
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| Step 7: |
Build a thread head whip finish and cement.
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| Step 8: |
Tease out some guard hairs from the thorax.
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