Wet Irish Mayfly

Published on Feb 24. 2026 - 2 days ago
Updated or edited 2 days ago

Materials Used:
Hook- Kamasan B175 size 10
Thread- Uni 8/0 Black
Tail- Cock pheasant fibres
Rib- Hot orange UTC Wire
Body- Yellow Wifred mylar tinsel
Body hackle- Yellow grizzle cock
Wing- Yellow hot orange zonker strip with added yellow prism dub
Front hackle- French partridge dyed picric

Video by

Scott Jackson

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If today's tyer wants to tie the Mary Orvis Marbury Lake flies, they would be wise to think 'old school', and transport themselves back to a time when the hooks had blind eyes, the materials were natural, and the flies were colorful and uniquely adapted to the American fly fishing experience by Mary Orvis Marbury and her crew of women tyers.

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