Ethel May

Ethel May

Classic Wet Fly

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #12 sproat

Thread: red

Body Parts: tag, tail, rib, body, hackle, wings 

Materials: gold, black hackle barbs, gold, green floss, black hen or soft rooster / cock, barred turkey

Notes:

an 1884 Charles Orvis trout fly from the illustration in Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) by Mary Orvis Marbury with ingredients help from Flies by J. Edson Leonard

Tag and rib ingredients are up for interpretation: flat tinsel / oval tinsel / wire

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