Silver Doctor

advancedclassicatlantic salmonsalmon flyfully dressedmarried wingtraditional

Description

The Silver Doctor is a classic fully dressed Atlantic salmon fly, here drafted as a Pryce-Tannatt-style variant with modern legal substitutes for protected materials. Its bright silver body, blue hackle, married wing, jungle cock sides, and kingfisher-blue cheek make it a clean showpiece pattern as much as a fishing fly for clear salmon rivers.

Materials

Tying Instructions

1.
Secure the salmon hook in the vise with the shank level and start the black thread behind the eye.
2.
Wrap the thread to the bend and tie in fine oval silver tinsel for the tag.
3.
Make a short silver tag, tie off the tinsel, and cover the rear of the tag with a few smooth turns of yellow floss.
4.
Tie in a small golden pheasant crest tail so it curves just beyond the bend.
5.
Build a short scarlet wool butt in front of the tag and trim it clean.
6.
Tie in oval silver tinsel for the rib and flat silver tinsel for the body at the rear of the body section.
7.
Wrap the flat silver tinsel forward in smooth touching turns and tie it off behind the wing position.
8.
Rib the body with open turns of oval silver tinsel and tie it off cleanly.
9.
Tie in the light blue hackle by the tip and wrap it as a sparse throat or body-front hackle, sweeping the fibers rearward.
10.
Prepare matched slips of scarlet, blue, yellow, bustard substitute, mottled turkey, and golden pheasant tail for the married wing.
11.
Marry the wing slips into matched left and right sections and measure them to reach just beyond the tail.
12.
Tie in the married wing with firm, controlled thread pressure, keeping it centered over the shank.
13.
Add jungle cock nails along the sides and a small kingfisher substitute cheek over each side.
14.
Tie in a golden pheasant crest topping over the wing, build a neat black head, whip finish, and apply black head lacquer.