Esmeralda
Classic Wet Fly
Tied By Christian Andrews
Hook: #6 sproat
Thread: claret
Body Parts: tag, abdomen, body hackle, thorax, hackle, wings
Materials: gold tinsel under green (blue green) floss, gray wool, dubbed, brown cock, short, palmered over thorax, gray wool, dubbed, brown (hen), mottled white/brown quill slips
Notes:
from the illustration in Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) by Mary Orvis Marbury and the ingredients chart in Flies by J. Edson Leonard
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