FLY
Dry Fly
Gordon
Tied by Christian Andrews
Gordon recipe
| Hook | #12-16 fine wire |
|---|---|
| Thread | beige |
| Wings | wood duck flank, split |
| Tail | cream badger hackle barbs |
| Rib | gold (oval tinsel) |
| Body | (old) gold floss |
| Hackle | cream badger |
About this fly
using the recipe in The Founding Flies by Mike Valla
What the Gordon imitates
- Salmon / steelhead classic wet (floss, tinsel, hackle)
Tied for: Trout (general)
In the old books
Original dressing as pictured in Kelson, The Salmon Fly (1895), Plate 6, No. 1. 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.
