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Quack Doctor fly pattern tied by Christian Andrews
Classic Wet Fly

Quack Doctor

Tied by Christian Andrews

Quack Doctor recipe

Hook#6 sproat (blind and snelled)
Threadred silk (or claret if head is not dark lacquered)
Tailred slips
Ribsilver oval tinsel
Bodyflat oval tinsel
Hacklered tied wet style
Wingswild turkey tail slips
Collarblack ostrich herl

About this fly

Quack Doctor: a classic wet fly from Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) by Mary Orvis Marbury

In the old books

Original dressing as pictured in Marbury, Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892), Plate T, No. 197. The photo above is a later tie, not the original.

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