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Glasso Black Heron
Syd Glasso
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| | Hook: | Partridge Single Wilson (Lightweight) #4.
| | Rib: | fine silver oval tinsel.
| | Body: | rear 2/3 flat silver tinsel,
front 1/3 black angora dubbing.
| | Hackle: | black dyed blue eared pheasant, in the dubbed part only,
wound contrary to the rib, so the rib holds down the hackle.
| | Collar: | guinea.
| | Wing: | black dyed goose shoulder, to the barb,
tented, vertical style.
| | Head: | black.
| | Note: | A modern Pacific Northwest pattern,
not to be confused with the original Speyside pattern,
which was fished well over 100 years ago.
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Fly tied and photographed by R. J. Brown.
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