The Maid of the Mill - a mixed wing lake fly

Santa put a pheasant skin in my stocking. This gave me a chance to try a new pattern over the holidays. This one is from the Mary Orvis chapter in Forgotten Flies:

Maid of the Mill
Tag: oval gold tinsel and red floss
Tail: golden pheasant crest
Body: yellow yarn ribbed with flat silver tinsel
Throat: brown rooster hackle, wound as a collar and then pulled down
Wing: matched pair of brown feathers from the shoulder area of a pheasant
Shoulders: reddish-brown feather from neck area and green feather from rump area of pheasant
Topping: white and red goose slips with a single strand from a peacock sword
Head: red yarn

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The peacock sword is supposed to follow the topping but I kinked the feather with some careless handling after the fly was finished. This was a fun one to tie. I need to work on the head size, could be smaller.

Regards,

Alberto

More goodness, Alberto. Really like these patterns you're posting.

Regards,
Scott

Nice Alberto. Might have to update my desktop with this one now....*grins/wink*

Very nice tie. And that head...eh, it ain't too terribly big imho. Nice fly.

Jeremy.

Beautiful.