FLY
Classic Wet Fly
Montreal (old pattern)
Tied by Christian Andrews
Montreal (old pattern) recipe
| Hook | #6 sproat (blind and snelled) |
|---|---|
| Thread | black silk |
| Rib | gold oval tinsel |
| Tail | red tuft |
| Body | red floss |
| Hackle | ginger, long, soft rooster tied wet style |
| Wings | wild turkey tail slips |
About this fly
from the illustration and comments in Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) by Mary Orvis Marbury
What the Montreal (old pattern) imitates
- Fancy / attractor (imitates nothing specific)
Tied for: Trout (general)
In the old books
Original dressing as pictured in Orvis & Cheney, Fishing with the Fly (1883), Plate III, No. 12. 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.
