Ray Bergman’s Esmeralda

This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Ray Bergman’s Esmeralda. It’s been awhile since I featured an old fly and decided to get out Ray Berman’s Trout and find a fly to tie.

I just like the elegance and simplicity of a Bergman wet fly and it forces me to practice mounting duck quill wings whenever I feature one of Bergman’s flies.

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.

You can find the Esmeralda wet fly on Plate No. 3 page 48 of Bergman’s Trout (1940 – fourth printing).

I’ve featured several Ray Bergman flies as a Throw Back Thursday Fly. If you’d like to see more, click on the Ray Bergman Flies Category on the right-hand panel or HERE.

My favorites I’ve tied over the years include – Lord Baltimore, Montreal, Babcock, and Bouncer.

If you are interested in more old books to download and read, be sure to check out my  Links to Free Old Fly Fishing & Fly Tying Books.

The Esmeralda

Note: tied on Mustad 3906B #8 hook; yellow floss for rib

Enjoy…go fish!