| TYPE: |
Dry Fly |
| SIMULATES: |
Adult Mayfly |
| HABITAT: |
Rivers & Lakes |
| DESIGNED TO TAKE: |
Trout |
| BACKGROUND: |
Redding, Calif., tier Frank E. Raymond's version of the classic pattern, featuring a gold plated hook and dyed quill body. Frank's recipe for a handful of stripped quills: add 1 teaspoon distilled white vinegar to 12 drops Shilling's Yellow food color in 1 1/2 cups water, simmer to a strong yellow. Rinse and store in 4 parts water to one part glycerin to maintain pliability. |
| MATERIALS: |
| Hook: |
Sizes 12-16 Mustad #94834 TDE, Gold-Plated |
| Thread: |
Size 6/0 Danville's Pre-Waxed Thread, Yellow |
| Tail: |
Ginger-Colored Bleached Moose Mane |
| Body: |
Large Neck Hackle Quill, Stripped, Dyed Yellow |
| Wings: |
Barred Woodduck Flank Barbs |
| Hackle: |
Cream, Light Ginger or Very Light Badger Neck Hackle |
| Head: |
Tying Thread |
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| INSTRUCTIONS: |
- Leave head space. Wrap to bend. Tie in 4 moose mane hairs. Atop base of tail, tie in tip of dyed hackle quill.
- Form a closely wrapped quill body; secure at head space. Trim excess butt.
- Coat body with head cement.
- For wing, strip off a clump of flank feather barbs; tie in front of body. Lift wing and secure vertically with wraps fore and aft. Trim excess butts.
- Tie hackle in front of wing, concave side down, tip beyond eye. Spin twice behind, twice in front of wing; tie down, trim excess tip.
- Form a small head; whip finish. Cement head and hackle base.
Drawings Copyright © 1981, John F. McKim. All rights reserved.
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