The General Practitioner

• 1). Tighten the vise around the hook. Tie the bucktail fibers with the orange thread so that the tips of the fibers stick up away from the curve of the hook.
  
  
• 2). Tie the hot orange hackle over the bucktail. Lay the trimmed pheasant tippet feather over the bucktail. Make sure that the fibers are running parallel.
  
  
• 3). Lay the gold pheasant breast feather over the pheasant tippet. Wind the orange thread from the eye of the hook along the shank to form the carapace.
  
  
• 4). Tie the orange hackle feather with fibers facing down at about the halfway point of the shank. Tie the gold oval tinsel at the bottom of the hackle feather. Tie the orange wool alongside the gold oval tinsel.
  
  
• 5). Wind the wool halfway down the shank and tie off. Wind ribbing to the same point as the orange wool and wind off three times and then tie.
  
  
• 6). Grasp the hackle and remove the hook from the vise. Wind the hook three times to take up the hackle. Tie the hackle. Cut the hackle fibers on top of the hook. The other fibers should remain facing downward.
  
  
• 7). Tie the golden pheasant breast feather over the hackle. Add a second hackle and wind onto the body. Tie off the hackle. Trim the feather fibers above hook. Finish the fly with the last golden pheasant breast feather and tie off with a whip finish. Use four turns of the hook for each whip finish. Repeat the whip finish three times. Tie off and cut the threads.