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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