Hare’s Ear
Classic Wet Fly
Tied By Christian Andrews
Hook: #8 sproat
Thread: Olive silk
Body Parts: tag, body, wings
Materials: flat gold tinsel, dubbed hare’s ear fur, gray quill slips
Notes:
from the illustration in Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) by Mary Orvis Marbury.
NOTE:
Quill here is flight feathers often from a water fowl. Slips are strips of quill barbs usually the width of the hook gape.
Because the silk thread is waxed with cobbler’s wax, no head cement was used for the example fly. The Orvis flies did have lacquer applied to the heads.
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