Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Princeton Tiger



Princeton Tiger

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Black

Tag - Flat silver tinsel

Tail - Red hackle

Ribbing - Flat silver tinsel

Body - Nlack wool

Hackle - Black

Wing - Orange bucktail over strands of pearl krystal flash

Author's Note

This fly was introduced and popularized by Eddie Ward as he fished the Clearwater River back in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. He was a graduate of Princeton so he used the college colors, orange and black and the athletic teams’, Tigers, to name the fly. It proved to be a very successful fly to lure big steelhead on the Clearwater.

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