Ard Stetts Flies

Name	Western Doctor
Category	Pacific Salmon
Hook	A Mustad bronzed or jappened single salmon hook in #s 1 – 6
Silk	Red
Tail	A bunch of dyed yellow calf tail
Butt	A build of red wool
Body	Wound with wide silver tinsel
Ribbing	Reverse wound heavy oval silver tinsel
Throat	Wound silver doctor blue hackle gathered and tied down into a nice full throat
Underwing	Three small bunches of dyed red, yellow, and blue bucktail mixed
Wing	A mallard duck flank feather tied on flat and as long as your underwing
Cheek	Jungle cock eye
Head	Lacquered red silk

Western Doctor, a variation of the Silver Doctor, was conceived and tied by 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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