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Gray Ghost

Streamer · Trout · Salmon · Advanced · 3 versions

Classic Recipe

• Hook Streamer, 6x long, 4-8
• Thread White 6/0

Materials

• Body Orange floss (smooth)
• Rib Flat silver tinsel (spiral)
• Belly White bucktail (sparse)
• Throat Peacock herl and golden pheasant crest (sparse)
• Wing 4 gray saddle hackles (long, flanked)
• Shoulder Silver pheasant body feather (short)
• Cheeks Jungle cock eye (1 pair)

How to tie it

1. Mount hook, wrap orange body with silver rib
2. Tie in white bucktail belly
3. Add peacock herl throat with golden pheasant crest
4. Tie in 4 gray saddle hackle wing
5. Add silver pheasant shoulders
6. Add jungle cock cheeks
7. Build head, whip finish, lacquer

Other versions

2 more in the app: Classic Recipe (2), Grey.

Tying videos

• Gray Ghost — She Ties Flies (She Ties Flies)
• Gray Ghost — TheSlideinn (YouTube)
• Gray Ghost — Davie McPhail (YouTube)
• Gray Ghost — L.L.Bean (YouTube)

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