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Ard Stetts Flies
A Stetts Original Pattern for Silver Salmon and Trout
| Name | Orange Tip |
|---|---|
| Category | Pacific Salmon |
| Hook | Dia-Riki #810 size #2 a nice wide gap with a ball eye |
| Silk | Orange |
| Tag | The tag is wrapped longer than normal and is of medium flat gold tinsel |
| Tip | A small build of orange silk to support the tail |
| Tail | A nice pair of golden pheasant tippets tied in long |
| Butt | Black ostrich |
| Body | Medium flat gold tinsel |
| Ribbing | Oval gold tinsel |
| Underwing | A full bunch of dyed brown buck tail half as long as tail |
| Wing | Two matched bright orange saddle hackles over which are two slightly longer medium brown hackles |
| Cheek | Jungle cock eye |
| Collar | Three or four turns medium brown hackle tied back |
| Head | Lacquered orange silk |
Orange Tip is an original pattern from Salmonfly.Net Contributing Fly Tyer and author, Ard Stetts. You can see more of Ard's flies at The Flies of Ard Stetts.
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