classic Michigan dry fly · date unknown (Halladay's main tying years were about 1920 to 1930)
Halladay's Hair Stone
Also called Hair Stone
Unverified origin Only source is one Deschaine column built on Halladay family information.
History
Halladay family members told Tom Deschaine that the Hair Stone was the fly Len Halladay liked best of all his own patterns. It has a gray wool body ribbed with yellow, spent deer-hair wings, mixed brown and grizzly hackle and a short tail of red-dyed pig bristles. Deschaine compared a sample of the wool against Halladay's Adams and judged it to be the same yarn.
Asked about the red tail, Halladay is said to have explained that a commercial tyer sometimes needs a distinctive touch to catch the buyer's eye as well as the trout's. No date for the pattern is recorded.
Materials
| Hook | Mustad dry, sizes 8 to 12 |
|---|---|
| Thread | Black 6/0 |
| Tail | Two or three pig bristles, dyed red |
| Body | Gray wool yarn |
| Rib | Yellow 3/0 monocord |
| Wings | Deer hair, spent |
| Hackle | Brown and grizzly mixed, two brown to one grizzly |
Sources
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Original recipe cards for many Michigan patterns are kept at the Michigan Dry Flies archive, built by the late Tom Deschaine.