As Specified


Originator: Art Lingren, Fly: Art Lingren, Photograph: Hans Weilenmann

Hook: Size 8 to 4, low-water salmon
Thread: Black 6/0
Tip, Tag, & Tail: Fine oval gold tinsel followed by purple floss and purple hackle fibers
Rib: Oval gold tinsel
Hackle: Black from second turn of tinsel, one side stripped to maintain sparseness
Body: Rear third of purple floss, reminder purple seal fur
Throat: Teal or widgeon flank
Wing: Bronze mallard

Notes:

Intended Use: Floating-line, wet fly for summer-run steelhead

My earliest steelhead fly creation first dressed in 1982, this fly remains a staple floating-line pattern for summer- run steelhead, with successes on the Morice, Thompson, Dean, and Campbell rivers.


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