Lake Green

Classic Wet Fly

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: # 6 sproat (blind and snelled)

Thread: claret silk (red silk if head is dark lacquered)

Body Parts: tag, rib, body, hackle, wing

Materials: gold tinsel, green floss, yellow floss, brown, fine long barbs tilted back, mallard flank

Notes:

Lake Green: a trout fly from Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) by Mary Orvis Marbury

The Orvis tiers used red silk but coated the head with a dark lacquer which changed the thread color to more of a claret

https://flyvault.net/wp-content/uploads/formidable/13/MOMlakegreen-150×150.png