Grey Ghost

Imitates: Smelt
Sizes: 2-8
Originator: Carrie Stevens
Kind: Streamer

Tied with

Hook: 6X long streamer, 2-8
Thread: Black 6/0
Rib: Flat silver tinsel
Body: Orange floss
Throat: White bucktail, peacock herl and a golden pheasant crest
Wing: Four grey saddle hackles, a golden pheasant crest over them
Shoulder: Silver pheasant body feather
Cheeks: Jungle cock nailsRestrictedGrey junglefowl is on CITES Appendix II. Capes are farmed and traded under permit, and a fly carrying one does not cross a border without it.

Seeded and shared, like the fly itself. Tyers vary a recipe and this is the one it was written down as, under the name of whoever wrote it.

Where it has worked

No report on this site has named it yet. When somebody files one and picks it off the list, the water and the month appear here. Nobody votes for a fly directly; the only way onto this list is a dated report from a day on the water.

Nobody can add a fly to this list from a form. It is seeded and shared, so that one fly is one row on every river on earth and a count is worth what it says. Fished something not on it? Put it in your report’s notes, in words, and it can be added.