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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