Coquihalla Red

Salmon/ Steelhead Fly

Tied By Darrell Olson

Hook: Ahrex HR412 Low Water Single, Size 6

Thread: 140 White Denier

Materials-

tip: Extra Small Gold Tinsel

tag: Yellow Floss

tail: Red Hackle Tip or Red Hackles

butt: Peacock Herl

rib: Small Silver Tinsel

body: 2/5 Orange Floss and 3/5 Red Polar Bear Dubbing or any Red Dubbing

hackle: Red Hackle

wing: Peacock Sword Fibers with Mallard Flank Over

head: 210 Denier in Black

Notes:

Tommy Brayshaw was one of British Columbia’s well known fly fishing pioneers. He was born in Yorkshire, England in 1886 and moved to Canada in the early 1900s. Not only is he known for developing a series of flies, but he was an acknowledged artist and carver of trout and steelhead. His fishing career took him too many of BC’s famed trout lakes such as Knouff Lake in its early thirty heydays! Brayshaw retired to Hope and became very familiar with, at the time, one of BCs most productive steehead rivers, the Coquihalla. He created five steelhead flies just for fishing this river, the Coquihalla Red, the Coquihalla Black and Silver, the Coquihalla Silver, the Coquihalla Orange Dark and the Coquihalla Orange.

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