FLY
Salmon Fly
Ghost Fly #2
Tied by Rich LaMonte
Ghost Fly #2 recipe
| Hook | size: 8/0 Bartlett Bend Hand Made by Graham Culley of London. |
|---|---|
| Thread | Veevus: 12/0 black |
| Tag | Peacock Sward fibers subbed in for quetzal |
| Tail | Golden Pheasant Crest dyed red(sub for western tragopan throat), red, blue, and yellow macaw, dyed ret turkey(sub for ibis), barred wood duck, and tippet strands. |
| Butt | fiery brown ostrich herl |
| Body | first half medium blue seals fur. Second half golden yellow, fiery brown, and red seals fur(sub for pigs wool) |
| Rib | large gold lace, 2 times large gold oval tinsel and large gold lace again |
| Hackle | Badger cock hackle dyed claret |
| Wing | 2 golden pheasant tippets back to back reaching the end of the tip, emu dyed green and just as long as the GP(sub for quetzal), light and dark bustard(8-9 strands of each), and 3 golden toppings |
| Sides | Jungle cock reaching the butt |
| Head | fiery Brown wool |
| Tip | Round silver tinsel |
What the Ghost Fly #2 imitates
- Fancy / attractor (imitates nothing specific)
In the old books
Original dressing as pictured in Kelson, The Salmon Fly (1895), Plate 7, No. 4. 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.
