Bird’s Cutthroat Streamer

Streamer

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #4 – 10 long streamer

Thread: black

Materials-

rib: flat silver tinsel, spiral wrapped over both abdomen and thorax

abdomen: white floss

thorax: red floss

underwing: white bucktail

overwing: dun bucktail

throat: four peacock herl, about length of wings

head: long, tappered, thread painted with yellow on red eyes

Notes:

A Cal Bird streamer fly from the recipe and photo in The Founding Flies by Mike Valla