Olive Gnat
Classic Wet Fly
Tied By Christian Andrews
Hook: #10-16
Thread: claret silk (or red if head is dark lacquered)
Tag: gold flat tinsel
Body: olive dubbing
Hackle: furnace - long soft rooster tied wet style
Abdomen: dark dun or olive quill slips
Notes:
from the illustration in Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) by Mary Orvis Marbury
“properly made on the smallest possible hook”
here, wings from parrot feathers
