Duracell

The Duracell is a great soft hackle fly tie with a CDC collar. Start with a jig hook in the vise with a copper bead at the front. Generally this pattern is tied with a silver bead, so use that if you would like. Lay a thread base back to the hook bend. Take eight or nine Coq de Leon fibers - I used an amber color - measure them to the hook shank for length and tie them in at the hook bend to create you tails. At the base of the tails tie in a piece of brassie size red wire to use as ribbing. Dub the abdomen of the fly with a Diamond Brite brown (Chocolate Brown) dubbing. Create a hint of a taper moving towards the eye. Also, leave some space behind the bead to have space to finish the pattern. I will also trim down the abdomen here - especially longer strands of your dubbing. Create a dubbing loop so that it begins where the abdomen left off. Next, add fibers from two brown olive CDC feathers into the dubbing loop and spin it up good. Take touching wraps of the CDC moving toward the hook eye. Stoke the fibers back toward the hook bend with each wrap to help keep them leaning back. Secure and remove the dubbing loop, and then take thread wraps back over some of the butt ends of the CDC. That will also help lead the CDC fibers back. Finally, add a little more Diamond Brite brown dubbing to your thread and create a small dubbing collar. This will further help the CDC lean back and help cover any of the bead opening that is still showing. Whip finish and you are ready to go!