Esmeralda
Classic Wet Fly
Tied By Christian Andrews
Hook: #6 sproat
Thread: claret
Materials- tag: gold tinsel under green (blue green) floss abdomen: gray wool, dubbed body hackle: brown cock, short, palmered over thorax thorax: gray wool, dubbed hackle: brown (hen) wings: 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