Jerry Avoledo's 'Bucktail'(ca. 1954-8)
Background:
Not a bucktail, of course, but a dry fly. An early version of the Deer Hair Caddis, or Sedge. Tied and sold by Jerry Avoledo, of Bellevue, Alberta, in the mid nineteen-fifties. Jerry's Sportshop is still run by his daughter Grace. Most likely an adaption of a British style sedge pattern, using a wing of mule deer body hair. Possibly the first such pattern used by local anglers on the Oldman and Castle watershed. In its time, on those waters, unarguably the most effective cutthroat trout fly immediately after runoff.