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Hot Orange Speal
Tied By William Lovelace

Name	Hot Orange Speal
Category	Steelhead Spey
Hook	Partridge CS 10/3 Blind Eye # 1/0 with Cortland 30# braided backing eye
Thread	UTC 140 Fl Orange
Body	Fluorescent Orange dubbing
Ribbing	Flat silver tinsel with silver twist counter ribbed to protect the hackle
Hackle	Hot Orange schlappen wound spey style
Wing	Bronze Mallard

Hot Orange Speal comes from the bench of Salmonfly.Net Contributing Fly Tyer William Lovelace.

Bill's notes: "The lack of a collar on this Spey fly distinguishes it as a Speal. In Autumns on the Spey, A. E. Knox listed the Gold and Silver Speals with black bodies."

Read more about William Lovelace and see more of his flies at The Flies of William Lovelace.