Hook - Single salmon, size 2-10
Thread - Black
Tag - Oval silver tinsel
Tip - Yellow floss
Tail - A golden pheasant crest, over which red hackle fibers half as long
Butt - Black ostrich herl
Ribbing - Fine oval silver tinsel
Body - Rear two-thirds, embossed silver tinsel; front third orange floss
Throat - Natural guinea hen fibers, beard style
Wing - A sparse mixed bunch of orange, red, and yellow polar bear or calf tail, over which a small bunch of natural brown bucktail or red fox squirrel tail fibers
Topping - A golden pheasant crest feather
Cheeks - Jungle cock eyes (second eye showing)
Author's Note
This pattern is among those derived from the classics which may show variations in the hair wing version due simply to the tyer’s translation from the original. It uses more than the usual number of materials found in a hair wing pattern and thus serves well as a model for similar techniques used in other salmon flies.
The Book of Fly Patterns: Over 1,000 Patterns for the Construction of Artificial Flies - Eric Leiser
