Fox

Fly: Russell Stanton, Photograph: Hans Weilenmann

Hook: low water salmon hook, # 2 - 6
Thread: black Benecchi 12/0
Tip: oval silver tinsel, fine
Tag: yellow-orange floss, lacquered
Tail: Golden pheasant crest
Butt: black Ostrich herl
Rib: oval silver tinsel, medium
Body: black floss
Throat: black cock's hackle
Wing: Gray fox guard hair or squirrel tail
Sides: Jungle cock
Head: black thread, set back to allow riffle hitch
Note: The Fox is a hair wing Atlantic Salmon fly from Art Lee's Tying and Fishing the Riffling Hitch


Back to Thumbnails

© 2004 Hans Weilenmann
Please don't copy/distribute the contents of this page without my explicit permission.