Ethel May

Classic Wet Fly

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #12 sproat

Thread: red

Materials-

tag: gold

tail: black hackle barbs

rib: gold

body: green floss

hackle: black hen or soft rooster / cock

wings: barred turkey

Notes:

an 1884 Charles Orvis trout fly from the illustration in Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) by Mary Orvis Marbury with ingredients help from Flies by J. Edson Leonard

Tag and rib ingredients are up for interpretation: flat tinsel / oval tinsel / wire