Cerise Whistler (striper fly)

Fly: Jim Woolacott, Photograph: Hans Weilenmann

Hook: Tiemco 800S 2/0
Thread: white flat waxed nylon
Eyes: large bead chain
Weight: ten turns of .035 lead wire
Tail: 20-30 strands silver flashabou
Wing: 4 small sections of bucktail, one on top, one each side and one underneath shank, small section of hot cerise bucktail on top followed by pink crystal flash and a few strands of purple bucktail
Side: rainbow crystal flash and grizzy saddle hackle centered on top of crystal flash
Collar: red chenille, one or two turns at most Hackle - 2 or 3 white wide webby saddle feathers
Hackle: 2 or 3 white wide webby saddle feathers
Head: red thread




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