Spitfire
Hook - Mustad 9672, size 4-10
Thread - Black
Tail - A section of dyed red goose quill fibers
Palmer ribbing - Brown hackle palmered through body
Body - Black chenille
Hackle - Guinea hen body feather wound as a wet fly collar
REMARKS: This Don Gapen pattern is now almost fifty years old. It is listed as a trout streamer pattern but would also easily pass as a wet fly.
Wooly Worm Variant
The Book of Fly Patterns: Over 1,000 Patterns for the Construction of Artificial Flies - Eric Leiser
