Fluttering Stonefly

Fly: Russell Stanton, Photograph: Hans Weilenmann

Hook: TMC 2312 # 6
Thread: 6/0 orange
Tail: moose body hair
Rib: brown saddle hackle (size # 14 - 16) - palmered with 5 or 6 turns
Body: burnt-orange Antron yarn
Underwing: elk rump - sparse
Middlewing: Krystal Flash, root beer
Overwing: moose body hair, tied in tips first with butts trimmed to length (this ensures wing stays flared and doesn't mat down, to imitate fluttering wings
Head: moose body hair (from top wing), bullet style
Legs: black rubber
Note: from article in Flyfishing and Tying Journal by Todd Smith w/ Stonefly Angler's Shop in Boise


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