Incredible Silver Minnow #1 Tied by Paul Beaudreau
Head:        Silver with black eye and yellow pupil
Tail:          Gray stripped mallard herl or grizzly hackle
Body:        Wound tightly with lead wire. The wire body is covered and tapered with silk floss of any color.
                This is covered completely by a double overlay of embossed flat silver tinsel
Throat:      Crimson rooster hackles
Wing:        White bucktail, over which is blue impala hair. Over this is a gray mallard flank feather tied on flat
                on top of  the hair so it surrounds all of the hair.
Note:        Created by Al Giradot. 
Source:     Bates, J. (1950, 1966, 1995) Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing, p. 337
     
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