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

Lady Ellen

Lady Ellen

Hook - Salmon/steelhead style

Thread - Black

Tag - Oval silver tinsel

Tip - Red tying thread used to tie down the body material

Body - Silver mylar piping, slim

Wing - Black squirrel tail

Throat - Blue hackle fibers

UV Resin

Reference - Hair-Wing Atlantic Salmon Flies - Keith Fulsher & Charles Krom