Continuing the series...the serendipity, one of my personal favorites to tie and fish. See the bottom few pictures which are my version. As I mentioned while tying, for some reason I have always added a turn or two of peacock herl underneath the dear hair, and I don't spin it...anway:



Step 1: Create a thread base for friction, 8/0 brown



Step 2: Tie in a strand of brown zelon about 1.5-2 hook eyes behind the eye, twist thoroughly gripping with hackle pliers and wrap back



Step 3: Wrap forward, keeping tight, touching wraps and adding segmentation - for watever reason I did a poor job with the zelon in this fly, see below for better examples.



Step 4: Tie in a clump of deer hair. Don't know what kind we used, but I prefer cheap coastal deer hair for these given how much you trim. Spin hair



Step 5: Give the deer hair some business - tight below, to the sides and in front



Step 6: Give it some more business.



If you are the Nymphmeister, it looks like this.


More patterns, all from Craig Matthews, and all work on the Housy in sizes 14-20.



Three-dollar bridge



Crystal serendipity, with enhancement.



Green serendipity.