Furnace

Furnace

Classic Wet Fly

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #6 sproat

Thread: claret

Body Parts: rib, body, hackle, wings 

Materials: furnace dry fly hackle shorter than hook gape, palmered, red (crimson) floss, furnace, soft cock, gray quill

Notes:

The sample fly is tied from the illustration in Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) by Mary Orvis Marbury

furnace is a feather color: black stem (rachis) with brown barb tips

palmering is wrapping the hackle feather in spirals over the body generally with the barbs slanting back toward the bend of the hook; feather is tied in with shiny side out

this fly could be tied with a reverse palmer rib which is when the barbs lean toward the eye of the hook; feather is tied in with shiny side toward hook

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