Looking for a recipe for a fly called an Iron Sally (or Sallie).
Thank you.
I found it under google at a websiye called DEALTIME. I suggest that you go to google and type in IRON SALLY FISHING FLY then look up Dealtime and all will be revealed…
Brian
found this probably doesnt help much, its from a list of 1800 s flys
- YELLOW SALLY. Hook 0.
WINGS.- From a Green Linnet’s tail.
BODY.- Yellow silk.
LEGS.- White feather from a Hen’s neck, dyed yellow in onions.
The link to the site is http://www.flyfishinghistory.com/pritt_patterns.htm
I did a thorough google search and could not find tying instructions. cabellas sells them and a good closeup of the fly can be found on this site,
http://www.riverkeeperflyshop.com/Upper … Report.htm
looking at the fly I think I would buy them if I truely needed them.
Sorry I couldnt be of more help
Eric
This may or may not be what you are looking for:
go to www.flytyingworld.com/index.shtml
click on Flies
Click on Search
In Search Window type “Yellow Sally”
Click on Start Search
Look at the first fly called “Little Yellow Sally”
Hopefully this will help. 
Hi Eric! Dontcha just love the old recipe books? The next quest on that one is to figure out what a green linnet is - LOL. The old timers were pretty exacting!
Ortho…did you mean “yellow”?..Yellow sally should be fairly common…
The Green Linnet is a poem by William Woodworth
The Green Linnet is also a European Green Finch, which William Woodworth wrote about in his poem with the same title.
The Green Linnet
Poem lyrics of The Green Linnet by William Wordsworth.
Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed
Their snow-white blossoms on my head,
With brightest sunshine round me spread
Of spring’s unclouded weather,
In this sequestered nook how sweet
To sit upon my orchard-seat!
And birds and flowers once more to greet,
My last year’s friends together.
One have I marked, the happiest guest
In all this covert of the blest:
Hail to Thee, far above the rest
In joy of voice and pinion!
Thou, Linnet! in thy green array,
Presiding Spirit here today,
Dost lead the revels of the May;
And this is thy dominion.
While bird, and butterflies, and flowers,
Make all one band of paramours,
Thou, ranging up and down the bowers,
Art sole in thy employment:
A Life, a Presence like the Air,
Scattering thy gladness without care,
Too blest with any one to pair;
Thyself thy own enjoyment.
Amid yon tuft of hazel trees,
That twinkle to the gusty breeze,
Behold him perched in ecstasies,
Yet seeming still to hover;
There! where the flutter of his wings
Upon his back and body flings
Shadows and sunny glimmerings,
That cover him all over.
My dazzled sight he oft deceives,
A Brother of the dancing leaves;
Then flits, and from the cottage eaves
Pours forth his song in gushes;
As if by that exulting strain
He mocked and treated with disdain
The voiceless Form he chose to feign,
While fluttering in the bushes.
IRON SALLY NYMPH
Iron Sally Nymph is a great imitation pattern for the Yellow Sally Stonefly. The beadhead and wire body give this fly additional weight and flash.
Sizes: 14, 16
YELLOW SALLY STONEFLY
Looks like you nailed it ,Parnelli.
After the initial posting, we googled Iron Sally and came up with the same photo that Steven so kindly posted. I tied a few and brought them to BC with me.
Yesterday on a smallish creek between the border of BC and AB, my husband was just on fire with the Iron Sally! He had all those nymphs in his vest, but I had very good fortune with dryflies, so there were no complaints anywhere.
So thanks Orthoman for asking the question, and to Parnelli for sharing the photo.
Here’s the recipe I cobbled together from the photo:
Hook: 3x long curve shank hook
Weight: 4 turns of no lead wire behind the bead
Tails: light olive goose biot (looks yellow/brown)
Body and rib: thread to form cone shape, covered and ribbed with brass wire
Back and wing case: turkey tail reinforced with clear nail polish
Thorax: dark olive sow/scud (photo may show hare’s mask)
Legs: dark brown Krystal Flash
Head: brass bead
Antennae: light olive goose biot