Silver Shiner with tail from Kieth Fulcher’s Thunder Creek series of streamer flies

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from the recipe in The Founding Flies by Mike Valla

Hook: #2 - 10 3xL or 4xL straight eye
Thread: heavy white
Tail: two pheasant hen covert feathers
Body: flat silver tinsel
Underbody: white bucktail, sparce, tied in with tips over eye
Over body: brown bucktail, sparce, tied in with tips over eye
Head: bucktail under and over body folded back and tied off long, epoxy
Gill: red enamel on bottom only of thread band behind head
Eyes: black on white enamel

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