classic Michigan dry fly · date unknown (Halladay's main tying years were about 1920 to 1930)
Halladay's Hex Fly
Also called Hex Fly (Halladay)
Unverified origin Single Deschaine column; the dressing itself was reconstructed by eye from a displayed sample and may be inaccurate.
History
This Halladay dry was presumably tied for the Hex hatch. It has a moose-hair tail, a tan wool body, grizzly hackle-tip wings set spent in a delta shape and one brown and one grizzly hackle.
Halladay's family passed on no tying details for it. Tom Deschaine worked out the dressing by studying an original through a glass display case in poor light and cautioned that his recipe may not be exact.
Materials
| Hook | Mustad dry, long shank, size 8 |
|---|---|
| Thread | Black 6/0 |
| Tail | Moose body hair, small clump |
| Body | Tan wool yarn |
| Wings | Grizzly hackle tips, spent, delta style |
| Hackle | Brown and grizzly mixed, one of each |
Sources
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No photo yet. Every photo on michfly is of a fly tied for the site, so they're added a few at a time.
Original recipe cards for many Michigan patterns are kept at the Michigan Dry Flies archive, built by the late Tom Deschaine.