Few flies have spawned more variations, but the original remains a useful hatching sedge imitation.
Material list for the Invicta
Hook: Size 10-14 wet-fly
Thread: Brown
Tail: Golden pheasant crest feather
Rib: Fine oval gold tinsel
Body: Yellow seal’s fur
Body hackle: Ginger or brown cock
Throat hackle: Blue jay fibres or dyed-blue guinea fowl
Wing: Hen pheasant wing
![Step 1. Invicta.](/ugc-1/tas-scrape/marketing/sites/25/2022/05/invicta-1.jpg)
Step 1. Fix the hook in the vice then wind the thread to the bend. Catch in a golden pheasant crest feather and a length of oval gold tinsel.
![Step 2. Invicta.](/ugc-1/tas-scrape/marketing/sites/25/2022/05/invicta-2.jpg)
Step 2. Secure the ends of the golden pheasant crest and tinsel with thread and trim off the waste. Apply a body of dubbed yellow seal’s fur.
![Step 3. Invicta.](/ugc-1/tas-scrape/marketing/sites/25/2022/05/invicta-3.jpg)
Step 3. Finish the body a short distance from the eye, leaving room for the hackles and wing. Prepare and catch in a brown cock hackle.
![Step 4. Invicta.](/ugc-1/tas-scrape/marketing/sites/25/2022/05/invicta-4.jpg)
Step 4. With the hackle-stem locked behind the eye, grasp the hackle-tip with hackle pliers and wind it over the body in evenly spaced turns.
![Step 5. Invicta.](/ugc-1/tas-scrape/marketing/sites/25/2022/05/invicta-5.jpg)
Step 5. Leaving the hackle-tip parked at the end of the body, take hold of the tinsel and wind it towards the eye, locking the hackle in place.
![Step 6. Invicta.](/ugc-1/tas-scrape/marketing/sites/25/2022/05/invicta-6.jpg)
Step 6. Secure the rib with thread then trim off the waste. Take a pinch of blue jay fibres, trim to length and catch in under the body.
![Step 7. Invicta.](/ugc-1/tas-scrape/marketing/sites/25/2022/05/invicta-7.jpg)
Step 7. Ease the jay fibres around either side of the body to soften the effect, then prepare two matching slips of hen-pheasant wing feather.
![Step 8. Invicta.](/ugc-1/tas-scrape/marketing/sites/25/2022/05/invicta-8.jpg)
Step 8. Place the slips together, shiny sides in, ensuring the tips are level. Catch in the wing at the eye with two loose winging loops.
![Step 9. Invicta.](/ugc-1/tas-scrape/marketing/sites/25/2022/05/invicta-9.jpg)
Step 9. With the wing positioned straight over the body, fix it in place with tight thread turns. Trim off the waste and apply a whip finish.