Bird’s Cutthroat Streamer
Streamer
Tied By Christian Andrews
Hook: #4 – 10 long streamer
Thread: black
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