Spirit Fly #12
Classic Salmon Fly
Tied By Rich LaMonte
Hook: Byron Bjerke, William Bartlett size 7/0
Thread: Veevus 12/0 Black
Body Parts: body, tail, butt, tag, wing, horns, head
Materials: Rear section; yellow Mohair wrapped in vintage gold oval tinsel with yellow rooster saddle. front section; puce silk floss ribbed with gold embossed tinsel, vintage silver twist and wine colored rooster saddle hackle. Theoat is yellow schlappin hackle, Golden pheasant crest, veiled with amgold rump, Black Ostrich Herl, Vintage gold twist, blue silk followed by orange silk, Scarlett Macaw shoulder (orange with blue green tips, sprigs of Argus Pheasant center tail, golden pheasant center tail, peacock wing, red macaw tail, blue and gold macaw tail, Blue and Gold Macaw tail, Black Berlin Wool
Notes:
Note the tail veiling is supposed to be a tuft of GP spear. I felt the amgold rump was better suited.
The throat is supposed to be yellow Macaw, I subbed in Schlappin since I did not have the macaw needed.
You can find this pattern in William Blackers book “The Art of Fly Making and Dying of Colors”