This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is The Rose.
The Rose is a fly from the collection of Mary Orvis Marbury. I’ll call it a “variant” as I didn’t have the original materials to tie the fly. I used a Golden Pheasant body feather for the hackle and added black ostrich herl at the head to dress it up a little.
I found it listed in the book Forgotten Flies by Paul Schmookler & Ingrid Sils. It includes 250 trout and bass flies popularized by Marbury and produced by Orvis tyers in the late 1800’s.
As a member of the Central Oregon Fly Tyer’s Guild, I’m tying this fly for a fly plate to be donated to the International Federation of Fly Fishers. Each Guild member chose a Mary Orvis Marbury fly with a woman’s name to celebrate fly fishing women.
I tied The Rose on an older Mustad 3366 2/0 hook.
Enjoy…go fish!
John,
Well done.
Wow. Thanks John, this fly looks a lot like the Mary Orvis’ “Stella.”