B.B.L

B.B.L

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - White

Body - Silver polyglitter tinsel (Bill's body braid)

Wing - Purple over red bucktail or substitute

Throat - Bright blue bucktail or substitute; tied body length

Author's Note

The pattern for this fly, came from the fine book by Bruce Ferguson, Les Johnson, and Pat Trotter, Fly Fishing For Pacific Salmon. They write that this fly is a Bristol Bay Lodge pattern. It is said to be a good pattern for freshwater Coho.

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The Zebra

The Zebra

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Black

Tip - Silver oval tinsel followed by fluorescent white floss

Tail - Two sections of barred wood duck feathers back to back

Butt - Black ostrich feather

Rib - Silver oval tinsel

Body - Gudebrod HT Braid 1/8 black (originally the body was made of stretched and lacquered black Krystal flash)

Underwing -Two strands of pearly white oval micro tinsel and one strand of fluorescent white floss

Wing - Gray fox fur

Throat - Black hen

Author's Note

I created this artificial fly in July 1998. My first salmon caught with this fly was on the Matane River. Effective in both clear and cloudy weather, brown or clear water, I often return to the Zebra.

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