Esmeralda
Classic Wet Fly
Tied By Christian Andrews
Hook: #6 sproat
Thread: claret
Tag: gold tinsel under green (blue green) floss
Abdomen: gray wool, dubbed
Body hackle: brown cock, short, palmered over thorax
Thorax: gray wool, dubbed
Hackle: brown (hen)
Wings: mottled white/brown quill slips
Notes:
from the illustration in Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) by Mary Orvis Marbury and the ingredients chart in Flies by J. Edson Leonard
