Alder (Thaddeus Norris)

Classic Wet Fly

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #8 – 12

Thread: black

Body Parts: body, wings

Materials: black mohair / wool, 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)