Ben Bent

Ben Bent

Dry Fly

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #12 fine wire

Thread: yellow and red

Materials-

tag: gold tinsel under yellow thread under read thread

tail: two very small light dun feathers or feather tips

body: light gray wool or fine dubbing

front hackle: slightly oversized light dun dry

wings: two light dun feather tips

head: red thread

Notes:

an 1884 Charles Orvis fly tied from  the trout fly illustrations in Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) by Mary Orvis Marbury 

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