The royal coachmen is a wet fly used in recreational fly fishing.
There are a few variations of the royal coachman fly depending on where you want to fish. Royal coachman flies can be used to fish in clear water and stone bottom brooks and have been used for brook trout and Atlantic Salmon.
Instructions
Creating the Royal Coachmen
1. Begin by placing the hook in the vice. Start the thread and wrap back to the starting point of the book. Select the Golden Pheasant Tippet feather, which will provide the fibers for the tail that you will need.
2. Select the 5-6 fibers that will make up your tail. Measure these fibers to a single shank length. Tie in the pheasant fibers directly above the barb on the hook. Wrap over the fibers up to the middle of the hook shank to secure them and keep an even under body.
3. Select 5-6 peacock fibers. Trim the end of the peacock fibers so that they are even. After cutting is complete, tie the fibers in and wrap over them back to the starting point.
4. Now wrap your peacock fibers around the hook to make a ball about the size of the eye of the hook or just a tad bit bigger then tie them off with about 3-4 wraps of thread. Wrap your thread over the fibers to the middle of the shank.
5. Select a piece of red silk about 1.5 in long. Split the silk into half to eliminate bulk build up in the middle of the fly. Tie in the silk with one wrap of the thread. Pull the silk back to a shorter length and wrap back over it to where you tied off the peacock herl, which should be right after the first ball you made. Wrap back up to where you tied the silk in.
6. Wrap the silk back up to the thread, and then tie the silk off. Wrap the peacock herl again to form a second ball. It should be a little bigger than the first ball. Tie off the peacock herl and cut off the extra fibers.
7. Cover up any extra fibers with thread. Take a feather off of a brown hen neck from around the middle of the neck. Cut off the fuzz and remove a few fibers from either side of the feather to mimic a comb.
8. Take 2-3 wraps of the hackle and tie them off. Cut off the extra feather material and cover up the remaining material with extra thread. Collect the fibers in your finger and pull them down underneath the hook shank. Strive to make the number of fibers per side equal.
9. Take a right and left wing feather from a white duck wing quill and remove 6-7 fibers from each. Align the two wings so that they are evenly aligned. Tie in the wings with 3-4 wraps of thread. Check both sides to make sure the wings weren't folded over while they were being tied down.
10. Cut the extra material off of the hook. Cover the extra hook material with thread and form a head on the fly. Whip finish the fly, then cut the remaining thread.
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