How To Tie a Griffith's Gnat (Step-By-Step Guide)

In this quick and easy fly tying tutorial, our fly tying expert Pierre will show you how to tie the Griffith’s Gnat Fly.

If you can see trout feeding on the surface of the water but they are simply ignoring all of your other flies, try tying on a Griffith’s Gnat. It’s often a fly that they can’t resist.

Quick Look
• Difficulty Level: Easy
• Tying Time: 5 minutes
• Materials: Hook, tying thread, peacock herl, and suitably sized cock hackle
• Hook Size: 14 - 24

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Quick Look
• Difficulty Level: Easy
• Tying Time: 5 minutes
• Materials: Hook, tying thread, peacock herl, and suitably sized cock hackle
• Hook Size: 14 - 24
 
Tools Needed to Tie a Griffith’s Gnat
• Vise (rotary vise helps)
• Bobbin holder for the thread
• Whip finishing tool
• Scissors
• Hackle Plier

Griffith’s Gnat Recipe
• Hook: Hanak 130BL Size 18
• Thread: Griffith’s Sheer 14/0 Olive
• Body: Peacock Herl
• Hackle: Whiting Grizzly Cock Neck

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Tight lines!