Peacock Fly

Classic Wet Fly

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #6 sproat (blind and snelled)

Thread: red silk (or claret if head is not lacquered dark)

Tag: gold

Hackle: black, rooster saddle tied wet style

Wings: Peacock wing quill slips

Notes:

from the illustration in Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) by Mary Orvis Marbury

Quoted from Charles Cotton (1630-1687): “We have the peacock fly; the body and wing both made of the feather of that bird.”