FLY
Classic Wet Fly
Ethel May
Tied by Christian Andrews
Ethel May recipe
| Hook | #12 sproat |
|---|---|
| Thread | red |
| Tag | gold |
| Tail | black hackle barbs |
| Rib | gold |
| Body | green floss |
| Hackle | black hen or soft rooster / cock |
| Wings | barred turkey |
About this fly
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
Tied for: Trout (general)
In the old books
Original dressing as pictured in Marbury, Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892), Plate P, No. 129. 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.
