Pacific King
Hook - Salmon/steelhead style
Thread - Black
Tail - Black hackle fibers
Body - Insect green floss with a strip of brown floss laid over the
top and secured with 4 turns of black tying thread ribbing
Throat - Black hackle fibers
Wing - Black squirrel tail
UV Resin
Reference - Steelhead Fly Fishing and Flies - Trey Combs
"Pacific Northwest Fly Patterns" described the wet fly version of this fly as being perfected in the High Sierra in 1940 by Roy Patrick in 1940 and generally good for all types of freshwater fish. Possessing some black squirrel I tied up a few. Pinched up against a talus slope in Pintler Range in Montana a Pacific King brought a monster cutthroat out of the depths. Thanks for the memory.
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