FLY
Salmon Fly
Black Doctor (mixed wing)
Tied by Rich LaMonte
Black Doctor (mixed wing) recipe
| Hook | Byron Bjerke #6 phillips (2/0 blind eye) |
|---|---|
| Thread | Veevus 12/0 |
| Tip | veevus small silver oval |
| Tag | yellow Berlin wool |
| Butt | Red Berlin wool |
| Tail | Golden Pheasant topping |
| Rib | medium silver oval tinsel |
| Body | Black silk floss |
| Hackle | Black from 2nd turn of tinsel |
| Throat | eurasian Jay |
| Wing | Golden Pheasant tippets in strands, mixed yellow, red a d blue Turkey tail, Golden pheasant tailp |
| Sides | wood duck brushed in |
| Head | red Berlin wool |
About this fly
Recipe from the 1902 Cork Collection Bantry and Kenmore Districts.
What the Black Doctor (mixed wing) imitates
- Fancy / attractor (imitates nothing specific)
In the old books
Original dressing as pictured in Marbury, Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892), Plate D, No. 35. 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.
