Monday, May 27, 2019

Frost's Blue Smelt


Frost's Blue Smelt

Hook - Mustad 3399, size 6
Thread - Blue
Connector - .024 diameter Beadalon wire
Body - Braided silver mylar piping secured at both ends with blue thread
Wing - Blue bucktail over 4 strands of peacock herl over white bucktail
Eyes - Painted black over white
Tying Notes

I ran out of silver mylar piping and substituted pearl mylar piping

Reference - Tandem Streamers - Donald A Wilson


2 comments:

Christopher Hubert said...

Norm, I like the pearl piping, May have tie a few to troll in the canoe. Thanks for the inspiration, wonderful flies and photography as always.
Chris

Normand Frechette said...

thank you