Body: Flat gold tinsel
Throat: Dark blue bucktail next to body, then 5 strands of peacock herl, all length of body
Wing: Red followed by yellow bucktail, then flanked on each side by yellow saddle hackles
Shoulder: Guinea hen body feather, 1/3 length of wing
Note: Originated by taxidermist David Footer of Lewiston, Maine.
Source: Stewart, D. and Leeman, B. (1982) Trolling Flies for Trout and Salmon, p. 68;
Leiser, E. (1987) The Book of Fly Patterns, p.250
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