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Name | Lucas' Polar Cocktail |
Category | Steelhead / Salmon |
Hook | Alec Jackson Spey (Daiichi #2051) or Partridge CS10/1 Bartleet
Traditional - Sizes #5 through #1.5 |
Tag | Fine Silver Oval Tinsel and Pearl Mylar |
Tail | Extra-Fine Peacock Sword |
Butt | Black Ostrich Herl |
Body | 1/3 Bennechi's Red Iridescent Thread, 1/3 Lucas' Burgundy Iridescent
Dubbing, 1/3 Lucas' Purple Iridescent Dubbing |
Rib | Small Silver Oval Tinsel |
Collar | Red and Purple Hen Hackle wound together |
Wing | Polar Bear |
Head | Danville Purple no-wax 6/0 Flymaster thread |
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This fantastic version of Lucas' Polar Cocktail was tied by contributing fly tyer, Scott Howell. See his notes about this fly below. You can see more of Scott Howell's flies at The Flies of Scott Howell.
SCOTT HOWELL'S NOTE(S): This stunning Steelhead and Salmon fly was designed by Master tyer
Ronn Lucas Sr., who certainly needs no introduction. While tying a batch of
Polar Shrimp, Ronn "allowed his mind to wander...as it sometimes does", and
the end-result is his beautiful Polar Cocktail.