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Ferguson

Wet Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 2 versions

Classic Recipe

  • Hook Standard wet fly / lake fly hook, 6-12
  • Thread Black 6/0

Materials

  • Tag Flat gold tinsel (few turns)
  • Tail Yellow and red married quill slips (short)
  • Rib Flat gold tinsel (4-5 turns)
  • Body Yellow floss (tapered)
  • Hackle Green hen (beard/collar)
  • Wing Mottled turkey with a yellow stripe (married) (pair)

How to tie it

  1. Start the thread and tie in flat gold tinsel at the bend, forming a short tag.
  2. Tie in a short married tail of yellow and red quill slips over the tag.
  3. Tie in the flat gold ribbing tinsel, then wind a smooth tapered body of yellow floss forward, stopping short of the eye.
  4. Spiral the gold rib forward in 4-5 even turns and tie off.
  5. Apply a green hen hackle as a beard beneath the shank (or a short wound collar).
  6. Set a matched pair of mottled-turkey wing slips with a yellow married stripe low over the body; build a neat head, whip finish and varnish.

Other versions

1 more in the app: Gregg Dressing (1940).

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