Green Drake (from Favorite Flies and Their Histories - 1892 by Mary Orvis Marbury)

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Hook: #12 dry
Thread: red
Tag: gold tinsel
Tail: three lemon wood duck feather fibers
Rib: black silk thread
Body: light olive wool
Hackle: honey dry fly
Wings: lemon wood duck feather fibers
Head: red thread

Head cement recipe:
Goop
Xylene (epoxy thinnner)

Instructions:
Fill a quart jar half full with Xylene
Squeeze a tube of Goop into the Xylene
Shake until the Goop is dissolved; add Xylene to desired consistency

Apply with a pin or needle dipped in the liquid

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