FLY
Classic Salmon Fly
The Major
Tied by Rich LaMonte
The Major recipe
| Hook | Byron Bjerke, William Bartlett size 7/0 |
|---|---|
| Thread | Veevus 12/0 Black |
| Tip | Veevus silver Small oval tinsel |
| Tag | Red Japanese silk |
| Tail | Golden Pheasant crest |
| Rib | Lagartun flat silver tinsel, gold twist made from veevus medium oval gold tinsel |
| Body | Blue seals fur,, followed by orange seals fur, then claret seals fur then dark blue seals fur |
| Hackle | Claret cock saddle hackle |
| Throat | Kori bustard |
| Underwing | Golden Pheasant tippet |
| Wing | ClRet cock hackle, married sections of argus center tail and kori bustard, and the underwimg of a snipe |
| Topping | 2 golden pheasant crests |
| Collar | Yellow schlappin hackle |
| Head | Black ostrich herl |
| Cheeks | Kingfisher |
About this fly
What the The Major imitates
- Salmon / steelhead classic wet (floss, tinsel, hackle)
Where the The Major came from
- Described by McPherson Grant, 1848, Norway. Says Blacker received 'The Major' from McPherson Grant, as printed in Jones's Guide to Norway (1848).Source: Classic salmon fly: the art and the history - The Field
- Described by Francis Francis. Gives a dressing with composite blue/orange/claret pig's-wool body and snipe and tippet wing.Source: Francis Francis, A Book on Angling (1867; later ed., archive.org bookonanglingbei00franiala), p.250
- Originated by Rev. A. Williams, River Usk. Kelson's heading credits Rev. A. Williams; called the first fancy fly used on the Usk.Source: Kelson, The Salmon Fly (1895), p.186
Where sources tell it differently, each account is listed with its own source.
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