FLY
Classic Wet Fly
Hamlin
Tied by Christian Andrews
Hamlin recipe
| Hook | #8 blind sproat with gut leader |
|---|---|
| Thread | claret silk (or red silk if the head is lacquered) |
| Tag | gold tinsel |
| Tail | white tipped Mallard secondary flight feathers |
| Body | brown quill |
| Wings | white quill |
About this fly
From Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) by Mary Orvis Marbury Originally published in Camping in the Alleghanies : or, Bodines. A complete, practical treatise and guide to "camping out.” by Thaddeus Up de Graff, M.D. in 1883. Tied here from the illustration in Favorite Flies and Their Histories with ingredients help from Flies by J. Edson Leonard
In the old books
Original dressing as pictured in Marbury, Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892), Plate Q, No. 153. 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.
