FLY
Coquihalla Red
Coquihalla Red recipe
| Hook | Ahrex HR412 Low Water Single, Size 6 |
|---|---|
| Thread | 140 White Denier |
| Tip | Extra Small Gold Tinsel |
| Tag | Yellow Floss |
| Tail | Red Hackle Tip or Red Hackles |
| Butt | Peacock Herl |
| Rib | Small Silver Tinsel |
| Body | 2/5 Orange Floss and 3/5 Red Polar Bear Dubbing or any Red Dubbing |
| Hackle | Red Hackle |
| Wing | Peacock Sword Fibers with Mallard Flank Over |
| Head | 210 Denier in Black |
About this fly
Tommy Brayshaw was one of British Columbia’s well known fly fishing pioneers. He was born in Yorkshire, England in 1886 and moved to Canada in the early 1900s. Not only is he known for developing a series of flies, but he was an acknowledged artist and carver of trout and steelhead. His fishing career took him too many of BC’s famed trout lakes such as Knouff Lake in its early thirty heydays! Brayshaw retired to Hope and became very familiar with, at the time, one of BCs most productive steehead rivers, the Coquihalla. He created five steelhead flies just for fishing this river, the Coquihalla Red, the Coquihalla Black and Silver, the Coquihalla Silver, the Coquihalla Orange Dark and the Coquihalla Orange. If you are interested in purchasing some Polar Bear material; check out Boone Trading Company at: https://www.boonetrading.com/collections/polar-bear-fur
What the Coquihalla Red imitates
- Fancy / attractor (imitates nothing specific)
Inside the vault every material on this fly opens to its own card, and you can save the fly to your own boxes.
