Tying Instructions

Tie in the lemon wood duck fibers for the tail and the furnace hackle. Wrap the thread halfway up the hook shank. Tie in the Yellow floss. Wrap the yellow floss to the tail and then back the point of origin and tie off. (If you want more bulk, wrap again to tail and back.) Wrap the thread to 1/8” from the hook eye. Tie in the red floss and wrap to the yellow floss overlapping the point where the yellow floss was tied off to give a seemless body, then wrap back to the point of origin. Palmer the hackle to the end of the red floss and tie off. Snip matching portions from 2 white goose feathers for the wings and tie on the sides. Snip a smaller section of blue goose feathers to form the cheeks and tie them on top of the white goose feathers running up the side of each wing. Tie off. Whip finish and use head cement to form the head.

 

History

The Major Pitcher is a classic trout fly, termed by many as a “fancy fly.” It was featured in the Winter 2002 Fly Tyer Magazine. It was designed in the late 1800s to early 1900s by the turn-of-the-century, Acting Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, Major John Pitcher.