Red Hackle

Dry Fly

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #14 dry

Thread: red

Materials-

rib: black silk (black floss)

body: red wool

hackle: brown dry

Notes:

This is the Red Hackle from Favorite Flies and Their Histories by Mary Orvis Marbury, 1892

Choose a dry fly hook of desired size: there is no specific recipe in Marbury’s book
Lay down a base of red thread (because the head will be red)
Tie in the black floss for the rib
Tie in a strand of red wool yarn (or dubb a red wool body); touching wrap the body back to at least an eye length behind the eye; tie off and clip
Spiral wrap the back floss to create the rib; tie off and clip
Tie in a brown dry fly hackle; wrap four or five times; tie off and clip
Wrap a thread head; whip finish; head cement

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