Mylar-Winged Spinner

My fishing partner shares my urge to try new materials, so when
he found some glittery looking ribbon, like the true packrat he is, he brought some home. 
We used this woven ribbon for wings on a spinner pattern and it works great!  

We have fished this
fly against a lot of others and the it always out fishes them, even in a Caddis
hatch.  Mind you the fish up here are of the uneducated type, mostly drop outs and runaways, but hey I don't complain.

Directions: 

1. Wrap thread from just behind eye to the bend in the shank. 
Dub in a small ball of rat at that point. 





2. Tie in your three tail fibers over the ball of dubbing, using it to separate them, a couple more wraps then trim the butts. 





3. Cut a piece of ribbon twice as long as you need to make a wing, then
fold it in half by putting the two ends together (not lengthwise). 
Then cut a wing shape by cutting in from the edge at the folded "hinge"
and cutting a half circle towards the top corner of the same side you
are
cutting from.  This way you get one piece shaped like two wings and you
get two of these from one folded piece. 
Tie in your wing at the 1/4 back from the eye point using diagonal
wraps.  Add a drop of head cement. 





4. wrap back to the tail, then dub the abdomen to a spot just short of the wing. 





5. Tie in your hackle feather. 





6. Dub forward, with two diagonal wraps of thin dubbing over the wing and then a little in front of the wing. 





7. Wrap your hackle forward.   I crowd a few wraps up tight to the trailing edge of the wing then bring it around and up
in front of the wing, give it 2 or 3 more wraps then tie it off and trim. 





8. Form the head and whip finish, cement. I trim the hackle flat on the
bottom so it gives the fly a better appearance on the water.