Hamlin
Classic Wet Fly
Tied By Christian Andrews
Hook: #8 blind sproat with gut leader
Thread: claret silk (or red silk if the head is lacquered)
Materials- tag: gold tinsel tail: white tipped Mallard secondary flight feathers body: brown quill wings: white quill
Notes:
From Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) by Mary Orvis Marbury
Originally published in Camping in the Alleghanies : or, Bodines. A complete, practical treatise and guide to “camping out.” by Thaddeus Up de Graff, M.D. in 1883.
Tied here from the illustration in Favorite Flies and Their Histories with ingredients help from Flies by J. Edson Leonard