Tying Instructions: Hart's Dark Lord

1. Mash that barb with your vise and slide a bead up to the eye.
Step One
2. Attach 4-5 wraps of lead wire to fill the void of the bead.
Step Two
3. Attach the thread and secure the lead wraps with the thread. Lay down a thread base to a position on the shank just above the mashed hook barb.
Step Three
4. Select two brown biots and tie in at the bend of the hook with the biot tips facing down. The length of the tails should be about 3/4 the hook shank. I prefer to tie one at a time.
Step Four
5. Attaching the second biot. Step Five
6. Attach a gold wire to the bottom of the shank and secure to the base of the tail. Step Six
7. Twist the dubbing onto the thread. It doesn't take much. Secure the first fibers with one wrap at the base of the tail and twist the dubbing as a rope onto the thread. Step Seven
8. Dub a tapered body almost to the bead leaving a small space for anchoring the wings and legs. Step Eight
9. Wrap the ribbing forward about 4-5 wraps and secure just behind the bead. Step Nine
10. Prepare a hen hackle by removing the basal fibers and exposing the quill. Now, remove the fibers from one side of the quill that is in the direction you wish to wrap. Yes...the far side.
Step Ten
11. Attach the hackle by it's base just behind the bead and secure with some thread wraps.
Step Eleven
12. Using your hackle pliers bring the hackle around the base of the body twice and secure with some thread wraps.
Step Twelve
13. Trim off the tag end of the hackle and secure with thread wraps.
Step Thirteen
14. Place two amber Goose Biots in a V configuration with the points downward on top of the hook shank behind the bead. Secure with a couple of thread wraps. Step Fourteen
15. Lift up the tag ends of the biots and place two tight wraps in front of the tag ends and behind the bead. The will help to "sandwich" the biots to the shank. They are slippery. Step Fifteen
16. Apply some Zap a Gap to the thread. This will help to secure the biots. Step Sixteen
17. Wrap the treated thread a few times behind the bead. Step Seventeen
18. Finally, apply a black dubbing to the thread for a collar. Step Eighteen
19. Wrap a collar and whip finish behind the bead. Step Nineteen
20. The finished Hart's Dark Lord. Step Twenty

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