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Post by Adirondackflytyer on Jan 16, 2011 20:57:58 GMT -5
Originator Jack Boehme of Missoula, Montana. This pattern has been around since about 1915 and get its name from a ground squirrel. They were originally dressed from the tails of ground squirrels. The cowboys gave the ground squirrel the name of picket pin as the animal, when sitting upright on the prairie, looks like a picket pin used to picket out their horses. Tail: Two tips of brown hackle or brown hackle fibers. Body: Peacock herl. Rib: Fine oval gold tinsel, or gold wire in smallers sizes counter-wrapped to reinforce the palmered body hackle. Wing: Gray squirrel tail. Head: Peacock herl over black thread. Notes: While recognized primarily as a wet fly, the Picket Pin is also very effective when tied in larger sizes and fished as a streamer. Here I've added a bead to give it some depth.
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