FLY
Classic Wet Fly
Hare’s Ear
Tied by Christian Andrews
Hare’s Ear recipe
| Hook | #8 sproat |
|---|---|
| Thread | Olive silk |
| Tag | flat gold tinsel |
| Body | dubbed hare’s ear fur |
| Wings | gray quill slips |
About this fly
from the illustration in Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) by Mary Orvis Marbury. NOTE:Quill here is flight feathers often from a water fowl. Slips are strips of quill barbs usually the width of the hook gape. Because the silk thread is waxed with cobbler’s wax, no head cement was used for the example fly. The Orvis flies did have lacquer applied to the heads.
What the Hare’s Ear imitates
- Mayfly nymph
In the old books
Original dressing as pictured in Marbury, Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892), Plate Q, No. 150. 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.
