Border Fly

This dressing uses what Jame Leisenring, in The Art of Tying the Wet Fly and Fishing the Flymph (1941), would label a badger hackle in place of a true, black-tipped and listed furnace hackle.

Hook:		10-14
Thread:		Red
Tail:		Light furnace or dark ginger
Body:		Blue rabbit underfur with two turns of tying thread showing at the end
Hackle:		Light furnace
		Roger Woolley includes the Border Fly as No. 163 under the heading “Devon and West Country Wet Flies” in the 1950 edition of his original Modern Trout Fly Dressing (1932): “Body.—Blue fur with two turns of bright red silk at the tail end. Hackle and Whisks.—Light furnace cock.”