Maurice

Maurice

Classic Wet Fly

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #6 sproat (blind and snelled)

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

Tail: narrow red quill slip

Abdomen: red (floss)

Rib: undersize ginger hackle, palmered over thorax only

Thorax: black (floss)

Hackle: ginger - wet fly style

Wing: rolled mallard flank

Notes:

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