An adult dragon fly initation which has been effective for me on the few occasions that I have found a fish chasing the red dragons near the reeds. I had been carrying one of these around for about three years between uses before catching a fish on it last week.
Hook: wide gap dryfly #8
Abdomen red 1 mm foam over tan 2 mm foam. Tie down at the back of the hook shank and wrap back to secure the foams together and make segments
Thorax: the same foam- one more segment on the hook shank for abdomen and then pulled forward and tied down to create thorax and head
Wings: White congo hair and pearl Krystal flash- this is not tied down but superglued in between the two layers of foam in the thorax.
Eyes: sharpie
Getting ready for the next pocket water session. Two sizes/weights of coho nymphy/shrimpy things. Larger streamer type stuff, weighted and unweighted to jig frogwater or swing slower pockets. Included a "swing for the fences" skater if I find snappy coho in a shallow, fastwater pocket where I can hang this in the surface film. Just have a hunch these fish will take a surface fly in the right conditions.
Tail - Dark scarlet
Body - Peacock herl*
Hackle - Brown
Wing - Slate married to cinnamon*
Trout - Ray Bergman
Don Bastian Note
* The Governor Alvord has the unique status of being the only peacock herl-bodied fly in all of Ray Bergman’s books with a married wing. When two colors are listed for a married wing as on the Governor Alvord the sections are normally equal in width.