Alder (Thaddeus Norris)
Classic Wet Fly
Tied By Christian Andrews
Hook: #8 – 12
Thread: black
Materials- body: black mohair / wool wings: brown hen wing quill
Notes:
from the recipe in The Founding Flies by Mike Valla
the Alder as tied by the “father of American fly fishing” Thaddeus Norris (1811-1878)
originally tied on an eyeless hook and snelled (silk moth caterpillar gut, stretched and twisted, tied in as an eye or leader with an eye)