Green Octopus

Fly: Bob Wyatt, Photograph: Hans Weilenmann

Hook: #8-12
Thread: Black
Tag: fluorescent chartreuse synthetic yarn
Rib: gold wire, wound up though the body hackle
Body: golden olive seal’s fur
Body hackle: golden olive cock hackle, palmered from hook eye toward the tail
Shoulder hackle: Large, webby golden olive hackle, or hen pheasant wing covert




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