Deer Fly

Deer Fly

Pop’s Recipe

Hook - Wet/dry fly

Thread - Red

Tail - Black⁠

Body - Gold Tip, Green Floss 

Wings - White⁠

Hackle - White⁠

Optional⁠

Wings - Grizzly hackle tips⁠

Hackle - Grizzly or Brown⁠

Another offering for popsflies - The Deer Fly but tied with the optional grizzly hackle wing tips and grizzly hackle. Textreme Olive Poly Floss and gold Textreme Pure Silk butt. Size 8 Mustad 3399⁠⁠

Pop, aka Harry K. Cameron (1894-1973), kept a little black notebook and a stack of index cards with 99 different hand-drawn fly patterns and their recipes. He tied these flies and fished them on the Arkansas and South Platte Rivers west of Colorado Springs, CO.⁠

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