Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Côte Bleue - Blue Coast

Côte Bleue - Blue Coast

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Red

Tip - Wrapped with fine red plastic tubing

Tail - Golden pheasant crest feather

Ribbing - Fine blue plastic tubing

Body - Flat silver tinsel

Wing - Gray fox guard hair tied low over the body

Hackle - Dark blue hen hackle tied on as a collar and tied back

Cheeks - Jungle cock eyes or substitute

Denys Poirier of Montreal, Canada, originated this pattern in 1985. 

The plastic tubing is the insulation on telephone wires. I used red and blue beading cord.

Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art

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