Bucktail

A pattern by Jerry Avoledo circa mid 1950s.
This pattern I came to know via Bob Wyatt's books. Bob is from Canada and grew up fishing the Oldman and Castle watersheds. His family was friends with Jerry Avoledo who ran Jerry's Sports Shop in Bellvue, Alberta and this was one of his patterns he sold there.

Bob notes this fly and an influence on him and as an early hair-wing pattern. He later met Al Troth and asked him about it and he was not familiar. The idea of these deer hair sedges as a general category seems to have been created independently around similar times. The use of deer hair as a winging material seems to have taken off from this time period.

Some quick date markers:
Trude - late 1890s early 1900. Most say 1901.
Picket Pin - early 1900s - 1919 often quoted.
Wulff flies - 1930s
Muddler Minnow - 1936
Haystack - 1949
"Bucktail" - 1954ish
Elk Hair Caddis - 1957
Ausable Caddis - Idea brewing post Haystack but maybe 1960s?

Thanks!