Sunday, August 6, 2017

Warden's Worry


Warden's Worry

Hook: Streamer, 3X to 6X long, size 4 to 12
Thread: Black
Tag: Flat gold tinsel
Tail: A narrow section of a red duck or goose wing feather or hackle fibers
Body: Orange-yellow spun fur or wool
Ribbing: Flat gold tinsel
Throat: Yellow hackle, wound as a collar or a throat of yellow hackle
Wing: Light brown bucktail

1 comment:

spike said...

Nice fly. I'm setting out to tie older bucktail patterns from Col. Joe Bates _Streamers & Bucktails_ and was fortunate to find your very nicely tied example. The plates in my copy of the text are small and so this was very helpful. Nice site.