This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is the Ray Bergman Black Angel.
The Black Angel is a Ray Bergman dry fly listed in his book entitled Trout (1940 – fourth printing) on page 332, Plate No. 13.
Bergman was well known for his wet flies, but his book also lists dry flies, streamers, nymphs, steel head and land locked salmon flies.
Plate 13 lists “Some Special Dry Flies”. Included in the list are an Adams, and several Wulff and Coachman fly patterns.
If you are a regular at RiverKeeper Flies, you recall Bergman’s book includes colored plates to illustrate the dry and wet flies with a description of each fly in the back. It was the first book to provide color fly illustrations.
Other Ray Bergman flies I’ve included as Throw Back Thursday Flies are: the Arthur Hoyt, the Babcock, the Blue Bottle, the Bostwick, the Bouncer, the Brown Turkey, the Chantry, the Darling, the Light Blow, the Mark Lain, the Montreal, the Montreal Yellow, the Mrs. Haase, the Rio Grande King, the Loyal Sock, the Prime Gnat, the Silver Stork, the Walla-Walla, the Whirling Dun, and the Wilson Ant.
The Black Angel
| Tail: | Black hackle wisps |
| Body: | Black hard body |
| Hackle: | Black |
| Wing: | Black hackle tips |
Enjoy…go fish!
