March Brown
Classic Wet Fly
Tied By Christian Andrews
Hook: #6 sproat (blind and snelled)
Thread: claret silk (or red with head dark lacquered)
Tag: flat gold tinsel
Tail: brown hackle barbs
Rib: yellow floss
Body: dark brown or dark olive dubbing
Hackle: reddish brown long soft rooster hackle
Wing: wild turkey tail slips
Notes:
from Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) by Mary Orvis Marbury
also called Cob fly, Great Brown, and Dun Drake
