General Money I & II

General Money I

Steelhead

Hooks - Single Salmon

Thread - Black

Tip - Oval silver tinsel

Tail - Natural red golden pheasant body feather barbs or substitute

Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel over dubbed portion of the body

Body - Rear two-fifths, oval silver tinsel; the front three-fifths, dubbed with black lamb's wool

Hackle - Claret tied on as a collar and tied back and down

Wing - Orange bucktail tied over the body

Cheeks - Jungle cock eyes or substitute

General Money II

Steelhead

Hook - Single Salmon

Thread - Black

Tip - Oval silver tinsel

Tail - Golden pheasant crest feather

Ribbing - Oval gold tinsel

Body - Dubbed with black lamb's wool

Wing - Red bucktail tied over the body

Hackle - Yellow tied on as a collar in front of the wing and tied back. (The hackle is also tied palmer-style on one variation)

Brigadier General Noel Money of Qualicum Beach, British Columbia, originated the two preceding patterns. These flies originally sported swan quill wings, however, they were replaced with bucktail over fifty years ago. General Money was one of our early fly-fishing fishing steelhead pioneers on the West Coast. Fly tiers were always seeking out his patterns and attempting to duplicate them. There were about nine known patterns but the two I have listed were the most popular.

Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art - Terry Hellekson