Dressing:
Pattern description

Hook:  Size 10 (Standard shank, in this case a Kamasan B175)
Silk:  Yellow or white
Tail:  Golden Olive Marabou
Body:  Olive Ice Dubbing
Hackle:  Grizzle (Plymouth Rock) dyed yellow or olive
Rib:  Clear sowing nylon
Head:  Glo-Brite floss, shade 5, then clear varnish.
Dressing notes for the Hot Head Grizzle Damsel
Place the hook in the vice, with the point exposed from the jaws. This allows the hook point and barb to be used as reference points in the dressing of the fly. Attach the silk to the hook and take a couple of touching turns down the shank. Select a piece of "invisible sowing nylon" (this is in fact fine monofilament) and attach it to the reverse side of the kook shank. This will be used as the rib of the fly to secure the body hackle. Continue the silk along the shank in touching turns to a point between the point and barb of the hook; remember to keep the nylon along the reverse side of the hook shank with the tying thread.
Select (pull off) a small bunch of Marabou fibres; take the fibres from the base of the feather where the plume is "fullest" (this is actually called the plumulaceous portion of the feather). Holding the fibres in the left hand cut off what remains of the main stem of the plume from the bunch and then with the first finger and thumb nail of the right hand, remove the fibres leaving bare stems. Wax the tying thread and secure the bare stems on top of the hook shank with a pinch and loop. Continue along the hook shank to the eye with the thread tying in the waste ends of the Marabou. Return the thread back down the shank in touching turns to the point at which the Marabou was first attached.
Select a small (it is important that not too much is selected) bunch of olive Ice Dub and "dub" on to the tying silk. This is achieved by holding the dubbing and thread in between the finger and thumb of the right hand and twisting both in a clockwise direction. This will form what is called a dubbing rope. This is now wound up the shank to form the body of the fly. Remember to stop short of the eye of the hook by approximately 2 mm. If more dubbing is needed then repeat the dubbing process until the correct point is reached near the eye.
Select a yellow Grizzle (Plymouth Rock) saddle hackle and strip a few fibres from the base to leave a section of bare stem Attach the bare stem underneath the hook shank with the "good side" (in this case it will be the convex side) of the feather facing the eye at a point where the dubbing body finishes. Take one or two complete turns of hackle at right angles to the hook shank then proceed winding clockwise at an angle down the hook shank. Hold the hackle vertically upwards and wind the nylon in the opposite direction to the hackle "quickly", hence trapping the hackle stem along the way. Tie off the nylon with two or three turns of thread and whip finish the head with three thread wraps. Now remove the waste end of the body hackle. Create a head of Globrite floss (take a few turns to build up a "bold head"), whip finish and coat with two or three coats of varnish.