Furnace
Classic Wet Fly
Tied By Christian Andrews
Hook: #6 sproat
Thread: claret
Rib: furnace dry fly hackle shorter than hook gape, palmered
Body: red (crimson) floss
Hackle: furnace, soft cock
Wings: gray quill
Notes:
The sample fly is tied from the illustration in Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) by Mary Orvis Marbury
furnace is a feather color: black stem (rachis) with brown barb tips
palmering is wrapping the hackle feather in spirals over the body generally with the barbs slanting back toward the bend of the hook; feather is tied in with shiny side out
this fly could be tied with a reverse palmer rib which is when the barbs lean toward the eye of the hook; feather is tied in with shiny side toward hook
