Tenkara Flies on Wednesdays: The Horse Hair Sakasa Kebari
From the archive · 2012. Some products, prices and details mentioned here may have changed since this was written.
written by Jason
This is one of my go-to patterns and lots of people have asked for a video on how to tie. It's a simple pattern, but the two contrasting strands of horse hair used for the body create nice segmentation while the variegation of the grizzly hackle gives a complex, "buggy" impression.
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Hook: TMC 2499SPBL #12
Thread: Camel, 8/0
Hackle: Grizzly
Body: 2 strands of horse tail - 1 light, 1 dark
