Brown Adder

Dry Fly Emerger

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #12 dry

Thread: brown

Materials-

tag: silver tinsel

tail: three light or gray feather fibers

rib: gold / copper wire

body: rust dubbing

front hackle: brown hen

wings: wild turkey

Notes:

Someone has suggested Mary Orvis Marbury’s book has a typo and this fly should be really be called a brown alder. However, Mary says this is an emerger imitation and not and Alder Fly imitation…so there’s that.

From Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) by Mary Orvis Marbury as illustrated by Charles Orvis.

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