FLY
Classic Salmon Fly, Salmon Fly, Salmon Fly (Artistic)
Gordon
Tied by Arthur Heffernan
Gordon recipe
| Hook | Reworked 3/0 Mustad 3366 |
|---|---|
| Thread | Black and White Daneville Flymaster6/0 |
| Tip | Silver twist |
| Tag | Light orange silk |
| Tail | Topping and Indian Crow(sub) |
| Butt | Black Ostrich Herl |
| Body | 4 turns Light orange rest light claret |
| Throat | Greenish blue cock hackle |
| Wing | Two tippets back to back, reaching to the butt, with red spear feather between and projecting beyond them. These are covered Digitized DRESSINGS OF SALMON FLIES. 107 on the sides with strips of bustard, golden pheasant tail, peacock wing, mallard, and strands of swan dyed blue, red, and yellow, and peacock herl; topping over. |
| Cheeks | Jungle cock |
| Horns | Blue and Gold Macaw |
About this fly
Tied this as a married wing in place of a strip wing
What the Gordon imitates
- Salmon / steelhead classic wet (floss, tinsel, hackle)
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.
