FLY
Dry Fly
Hopkins Variant
Tied by Christian Andrews
Hopkins Variant recipe
| Hook | #12 - 16 fine wire |
|---|---|
| Thread | beige |
| Tail | brown hackle barbs |
| Wings | Jungle Cock nails, short |
| Body | Blue and Yellow Macaw quill |
| Hackle | furnace, tied dry fly style, extra long |
About this fly
from the recipe in The Founding Flies by Mike Valla a Ray Bergman dry fly inspired by Don Martinez’s Dunham Macaw quill is the barbs from a Macaw tail
Tied for: Trout (general)
Inside the vault every material on this fly opens to its own card, and you can save the fly to your own boxes.
