Gray Ghost
Gray Ghost
RWFF Gray Ghost
- Hook: Streamer, Size 4-8
- Thread: Black
- Tag: Flat Silver
- Body: Orange or Yellow Floss
- Rib: Flat Silver
- Underbelly: Peacock Hearl and White Bucktail
- Throat: Golden Pheasant Crest
- Underwing: Gold Pheasant Crest
- Wing: Light Gray Hackle Tips
- Cheeks: Amhearst/Silver Pheasant and Jungle Cock
RWFF Tying Tip
Lots of materials and manipulation required on this one. Use Tail, Body and some of Pitti's special feathers on this fly.
One of Carrie Steven's marks was to do a small band of orange or red thread band in the head. I couldn't figure that out
in the game.
HISTORY
Carrie Stevens (1882 - 1970) was a milliner by trade. She lived in Maine, USA. She was the wife of Wallace Stevens,
a successful guide. She regularly built and glued feather combinations for ladies' hats and hatbands. The feather
combinations were either subtle or rich depending on that year's fashion. She did not invent the feather wing
streamer but she did significantly advance the design to make it act more like a bait fish when retrieved in the
water and is credited with the design of what we now know as the Gray Ghost.