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Old Blue Dun

Hook - Wet or dry 12-16
Thread - Primrose
Tail - Two or three rusty-dun hackle fibers
Rib - One strand of silk buttonhole twist – Coats and Clark’s 72-A primrose, size D; or full twist, tightly twisted
Body - Muskrat dubbed on primrose Pearsall’s Gossamer Silk, wrapped so that some silk shows through the dubbing at the tail end
Hackle - Blue-dun hen

SOFT HACKLES, TIGHT LINES: Old Blue Dun
 
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Skagit Cutthroat

Hook - Single salmon
Thread - Red
Tail - Scarlet and orange hackle, mixed
Butt - Hot orange chenille
Body - Oval silver tinsel
Inner wing - White bucktail
Outer wing - Scarlet goose quill

Skagit Cutthroat Presented by Salmonfly.Net
 
someone posted a detailed listing from a collection of flies from back in the 30's. many old time wets and vintage patterns with the season they were fished and how they performed. in the notes this pattern was highlighted as the best fly overall. here it is, the bracken clock.

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bracken clock

#12 Mustad 7957 B
red thread
peacock herl twisted on red floss body
**** pheasant neck feather collar

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