Tail: Red hackle fibers
Body: Flat silver tinsel
Rib: Oval silver tinsel
Throat: White bucktail to bend, then light blue and white hackle fibers
Wing: Four to six strands peacock herl and four light blue saddle hackles
Shoulder: Pale green shoulder hackle, 1/3 length of wing but just as wide
Cheeks: Jungle cock
Head: Black with red center band
Note: Although the Supervisor was invented by Warden Joseph S. Stickney
of Saco, Maine, Carrie Stevens developed her own imitation. Stickney
did not tie his own flies and had Mrs Stevens tie this variation for her
customers. Occasionally Carrie called this her Lake Supervisor.
Source: Carrie’s fly tying notes; private collection of Stevens’ flies
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