FLY
Classic Wet Fly
Great Dun
Tied by Christian Andrews
Great Dun recipe
| Hook | #10 sproat |
|---|---|
| Thread | claret |
| Tag | flat gold tinsel |
| Tail | light dun hackle barbs - long |
| Body | brown dubbing - traditionally bear |
| Hackle | black soft rooster |
| Wings | dark mallard quill slips |
About this fly
from Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) by Mary Orvis Marbury
What the Great Dun imitates
- Mayfly dun (adult dry) (dun)
Where the Great Dun came from
- Described by Charles Cotton, 1676, Derbyshire, England (River Dove). Dun bear hair body with grey mallard feather wing from near the tail; Cotton calls it the best fly on the river this month.Source: Cotton, The Compleat Angler Part II (1676), Elliot ed., February list No.6
- Described by Mary Orvis Marbury, 1892. Illustrated and discussed by Marbury among her trout flies (no. 141). The chapter carries correspondents' letters on its origin and use; origin claims from those letters not yet extracted.Source: Marbury, Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892), coloured plates, fly no. 141
Where sources tell it differently, each account is listed with its own source.
In the old books
Original dressing as pictured in Marbury, Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892), Plate P, No. 141. 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.
