A vintage Adirondack lake pattern originally tied to represent a moth. Made a few changes to the original; swapped out the white chenille body for herl and mallard tail/wing for wood duck, just for a slightly different look. The example I saw had a pronounced head so I gave it an extra 2 coats of Sally.
hook - Dai Riki 280 #12
thread - Danville 6/0 red
tag - floss (1/2 strand) red
tail - wood duck flank
rib - small wire gold
body - peacock herl bleached
hackle - hen brown
wing - wood duck flank
That’s a beautiful fly. One of your nicest looking ones, among the many you’ve tied and demoed over the years, IMO.
The bleached peacock herl looks like a completely different color from one picture to another, which is undoubtedly due to the angle of the lighting, but I wonder if the trout/fish would also see this fly as distinctly different colors under the water…hmmm?
I have never bleached peacock herl, other than bleaching to strip the herl off peacock eyes. How do you bleach it to leave that much herl on, and get that nice light color?
