Poor photo, but I think you can see its composition.
Black Marabou tail. Reddish brown hackle mid-body. Now, the body is either black ostrich hearl or maybe black chenile. Hard to tell.
Sorry about the fly’s background.
Approximately what size hook is that? It’s hard for me to get a scope of the size.
It’s quite large. He tied these in his latter years. His vision was not the best. I would say at least a 12 perhaps even a 10. The thing I love about his flies I have are the names he wrote in his own hand…
Thanks Byron
As the body is?? I am sure that either the would work. we have a fly in Wisconsin called the Pass Lake, when a floatant is applied
the body material acts like a spounge and retains and absoreds the floatant and helps the fly remain afloat or netural depending
upon the amount of floatant that is applied. The type of floantant one uses is also a factor.
Hey the hooks look intresting also, anyone venture a guess what brand they are?
Fishin’ Jimmy
Pretty sure it’s ostrich hearl.
Which rods of the Powell’s do you have?
Want these flies of Walton’s?
A Powell was in our fly fishing club. He has passed now, but was a biology professor. I think he was Walton’s nephew. I think he was EC Powell’s grandson.