The Lime Fly

The Lime Fly

contributed by Jack Morris

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Materials

HookMustad 9672, Size #8 or #10
ThreadLime, Green, or any light colour
TailLime Green 'Crystal Hair' or 'Krystal Flash'
BodyLime Mohair Yarn or Lime Green Antron
RibFine Gold Wire (or as size demands)
WingWhite and / or Lime Polar Bear

Notes

Jack Morris's favourite fly, concocted in the late 1980s, was fished mainly for cutthroat in the Fraser Valley, where it took two cutts on the first three casts at Queen's Island after other patterns failed. It is a simple lime-bodied streamer with a gold-wire rib and polar bear wing, and it also worked on coho.

Published in November 2007 (Vol 40 No 9), page 10.