SPS FLASHTAIL WHISTLER
an original by Dan Blanton
| Materials List | |
| Hook: | Tiemco 800S or Wright & McGill 254 plated 2/0 to 4/0(use short-shank hooks only! |
| Thread: | Danville’s Fly-Master Plus or equivalent, red. |
| Snag guard: | Size 6 or 7 doubled single strand leader wire, coffee colored. |
| Optics: | Large to extra-large silver chain-beads. |
| Under-body: | Ten turns of .030 lead wire. |
| Tail/wing: | Two to three medium bunches of white bucktail, soft and crinkly. |
| Flashtail: | 40 to 50 strands of a 50:50 mix of silver and pearl Flashabou, regular, not saltwater. |
| Tail/wing topping: | Hot pink (cerise) bucktail, medium bunch over white; small bunch of purple bucktail |
| Shoulder flash: | Ten strands of pink or hot pink Crystal Flash. |
| Side flash: | Ten strands of multi-colored (rainbow) Crystal Flash. |
| Side hackle: | One large grizzly neck hackle centered on each side just short length of tail. |
| Body/collar: | Two turns of medium red chenille. |
| Hackle/collar: | Wide collar, two wide, webby white saddle or neck hackle, faced with a large, webby grizzly neck hackle. |
| Head: | Red tying tread, several turns in front and in back of bead-chain optics. |