Brown Adder
Dry Fly, Emerger
Tied By Christian Andrews
Hook: #12 dry
Thread: brown
Body Parts: tag, tail, rib, body, front hackle, wings
Materials: silver tinsel, three light or gray feather fibers, gold / copper wire, rust dubbing, brown hen, 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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