Catskill-style Red Quill
Pattern & Tying Instructions
Fly Tying Recipe: Catskill-style Red Quill
- Hook:
- Standard dry-fly hook (here a Daiichi 1170), sizes 12-16
- Thread:
- White, 8/0 or 70 denier
- Wing:
- Two matching wood-duck flank feathers
- Tails:
- Medium-dun hackle fibers
- Abdomen:
- Quill from a Rhode Island red hackle feather, soaked
- Hackle:
- Two medium-dun feathers, slightly different colors
- Coating:
- Thin coat of varnish or head cement over the abdomen