Bird’s Cutthroat Streamer fly pattern

from the recipe and photo in The Founding Flies by Mike Valla

Hook: #4 - 10 long streamer
Thread: black
Rib: flat silver tinsel, spiral wrapped over both abdomen and thorax
Abdomen: white floss
Thorax: red floss
Underwing: white bucktail, 2x shank length
Overwing: dun bucktail, 2x shank length
Throat: four peacock herl just short of wing length
Head: long tappered thread with painted eyes: yellow pupil on red