Old Blue Dun

Old Blue Dun

Hook - Wet or dry 12-16

Thread - Primrose

Tail - Two or three rusty-dun hackle fibers

Rib - One strand of silk buttonhole twist – Coats and Clark’s 72-A primrose, size D; or full twist, tightly twisted

Body - Muskrat dubbed on primrose Pearsall’s Gossamer Silk, wrapped so that some silk shows through the dubbing at the tail end

Hackle - Blue-dun hen

SOFT HACKLES, TIGHT LINES: Old Blue Dun