FLY
Classic Wet Fly
Alder (Thaddeus Norris)
Tied by Christian Andrews
Alder (Thaddeus Norris) recipe
| Hook | #8 - 12 |
|---|---|
| Thread | black |
| Body | black mohair / wool |
| Wings | brown hen wing quill |
About this fly
from the recipe in The Founding Flies by Mike Valla the Alder as tied by the “father of American fly fishing” Thaddeus Norris (1811-1878) originally tied on an eyeless hook and snelled (silk moth caterpillar gut, stretched and twisted, tied in as an eye or leader with an eye)
Tied for: Trout (general)
In the old books
Original dressing as pictured in Marbury, Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892), Plate M, No. 84. The photo above is a later tie, not the original.
Inside the vault every material on this fly opens to its own card, and you can save the fly to your own boxes.
