This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Fern Variant.
I found this fly in an antique fly wallet, which is part of my small collection. I’ve shared a few of them in posts titled Antique Fly Wallets and Antique Fly Wallets Revisited.
I opened this fly wallet up and picked a fly similar to Ray Bergman’s Fern wet fly.
If this fly wallet could talk…I wonder what the story would be.
You’ll find Fern fly on Plate No. 3, page 49.
| Materials | |
| Body: | Pale Pink Floss – Gold Tip |
| Hackle: | Brown |
| Wing: | Light Slate |
Ok, so perhaps there is a little to much variation to the original fly pattern. It’s probably called something else, but it stuck me when looking at the flies in each of the plates.
I think I’ll have to pull some materials out and tie my own!
Enjoy…go fish!
