Since I've had to tie some Green Highlander hair wings lately, I thought I'd post a scan of one. I tie them with the classic fly's body and underwing along with a 4-part bucktail wing. This one was tied on a #8 hook.
The pattern (in the order of tying in the materials)
tip: oval silver (I use silver wire on #8 and smaller)
tag: yellow floss (I use silk and split it into a smaller piece)
tail: G.P. crest (also known as a topping)
butt: black ostrich herl (I use Gobin's method of tying in several
fibers of black goose shoulder and wrapping them around
back thread to form a herl for flies smaller than #4)
rib: oval silver
rear 1/4 body: yellow silk
hackle: Highlander Green rooster neck (Chinese or Whiting American)
front 3/4 body: Highlander Green (or grass green) dubbing
underwing: G.P. tippet fibers
mid-wing: yellow, orange, Highlander Green bucktail (tied one color on
top of the other)
throat: yellow rooster hackle (Chinese or Whiting American)
top wing: light brown bucktail
cheek: jungle cock
head: black thread
The pattern (in the order of tying in the materials)
tip: oval silver (I use silver wire on #8 and smaller)
tag: yellow floss (I use silk and split it into a smaller piece)
tail: G.P. crest (also known as a topping)
butt: black ostrich herl (I use Gobin's method of tying in several
fibers of black goose shoulder and wrapping them around
back thread to form a herl for flies smaller than #4)
rib: oval silver
rear 1/4 body: yellow silk
hackle: Highlander Green rooster neck (Chinese or Whiting American)
front 3/4 body: Highlander Green (or grass green) dubbing
underwing: G.P. tippet fibers
mid-wing: yellow, orange, Highlander Green bucktail (tied one color on
top of the other)
throat: yellow rooster hackle (Chinese or Whiting American)
top wing: light brown bucktail
cheek: jungle cock
head: black thread
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