FLY
Wet Fly
The Wilson
Tied by Darrell Olson
The Wilson recipe
| Hook | Mustad 3906, Size 8 |
|---|---|
| Thread | 70 Deneir or 8/0 Thread – Orange |
| Body | Orange Synthetic Dubbing |
| Beard | Orange Hackle |
| Wing | One Green Winged Teal Breast Feather with a Single Dot. Tie Concave Up. |
What the The Wilson imitates
- Salmon / steelhead classic wet (floss, tinsel, hackle)
In the old books
Original dressing as pictured in Kelson, The Salmon Fly (1895), Plate 3, No. 6. 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.
