Step 1:  Place bead sized to match the size of the fly on the hook, and start the thread about 3/4 of the shank behind the eye of the hook.  Next wrap back to the half way point, strip some fibers from a Grizzly hackle feather.  Measure the fibers so that they are about the hook shank length, and secure then with the thread, begining at the mid point and wrapping back to the bend.  If find that if you secure the tail in the way, there is less splaying of the hackle fibers.

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