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Wicked Wire Pine BWO Soft Hackle — Fly Tying Kit
A modern soft hackle built to dominate the Blue-Winged Olive hatch.
The Wicked Wire Pine BWO isn't just another soft hackle pattern — it's a rethink of how a segmented body, a natural hackle substitute, and a propped-up thorax can work together to imitate a struggling BWO emerger with uncanny realism. This kit gives you every material needed to tie this pattern exactly as designed, with premium components sourced specifically for the Wicked Wire technique.
Whether you're stocking your box before the next overcast BWO day or adding a proven emerger pattern to your subsurface arsenal, this kit gets you tying in minutes — no hunting through your bins for the right wire diameter or dubbing shade.
Choose your hook size at checkout: sizes 14–20 available, so you can tie this pattern to match the naturals on your home water, from early-season BWOs to the tiny size 20 stragglers late in a hatch.
Why You Need This Pattern in Your Box
A segmented body that doesn't look — or fish — like anything else in your box.The Wicked Wire technique (tie in front, wrap back, then forward in open spiral wraps) produces a clean, evenly segmented wire body with a rounder, more natural profile than a standard wire-bodied fly. It's immediately recognizable on the vise and even more effective in the water.
Built-in depth control without added weight.The wire body adds just enough mass to increase sink rate slightly over a thread-bodied soft hackle — no split shot, no added weight required. That subtle difference lets you present this fly at a different depth than an unweighted emerger, and makes it deadly when fished as a trailing fly behind a BWO dry. One rig, two feeding zones covered.
A collar that moves like the real thing.Pine squirrel's natural mottling and mixed guard hair/underfur texture create legs, movement, and translucency that a standard hen hackle can't match — tied sparse enough to never bury the segmented body underneath.
An emerger profile that trout key on.The olive beaver dubbing thorax props the pine squirrel collar outward, creating the bulkier thorax profile naturals have as they push out of the shuck — exactly the trigger trout look for mid-hatch.
A proven producer during the most reliable hatch of the season.BWOs hatch consistently on overcast, drizzly days from fall through spring on tailwaters, and again on freestones in early summer. Trout key hard on emergers during these conditions — which is precisely what this pattern imitates. If you fish BWO water, this is not an optional fly to have tied and ready.
What's Included in This Kit
Component
Material
Hook
Moonlit Premium TOGATTA ML102 —select your size at checkout, sz 14–20
Thread
Semperfli Classic Waxed 110m 12/0, Olive Dun
Body/Rib
Semperfli Tying Wire, 0.2mm, Bright Damsel Green
Thorax
Moonlit Beaver Dubbing, Olive
Hackle
Moonlit Pine Squirrel 2mm Zonker, Natural (for dubbing loop or split-thread application)
Kit includes enough material to tie multiple flies per component — exact yield varies by hook size selected.
Wicked Wire Pine BWO Tying Tutorial
Hook Size Selection
Select your preferred hook size from the dropdown before adding to cart:
Size 14–16— early-season and high-water BWO imitations, or as a searching pattern in faster runs
Size 18— the workhorse size for most tailwater and spring creek BWO hatches
Size 20— for selective fish and late-hatch stragglers when naturals run smaller
Not sure which size to pick? Tie a few in 18 as your all-around size, and size down to 20 if fish get selective later in the hatch.
Tie It, Fish It, Trust It
This kit is built for anglers who want to walk to the vise, sit down, and come away with a fly that's ready to fool BWO-feeding trout — not spend an hour cross-referencing wire gauges and dubbing colors. Get the exact materials behind the Wicked Wire Pine BWO and have this pattern locked and loaded before the next hatch hits the water.
