Here is the fly pattern sheet for Fran Better’s Dark Haystack.
Materials | |
Hook: | Mustad 9671, #10 – 18 |
Thread: | Hot orange 4/0 or 5/0 |
Tail: | Dark brownish deer hair |
Body: | Dark brown muskrat or beaver |
Wing: | Larger bunch of same color deer hair |
This is the fly pattern as described by Mike Valla in his book entitled The Founding Flies.
I’ve used 140 denier Danville thread for the fly on a #12 Mustad 9671.