Ray Bergman Collection – 177) James

Ray Bergman Collection — By HatchesMagazine on March 8, 2012 2:04 pm

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Tail: Scarlet quill sections
Ribbing: None
Body: Silver tinsel
Hackle: Light claret floss
Wing: Brown mottled turkey or Bittern

The James is very similar to both the Quack Doctor and the Montreal Silver. My friends and I have had great fishing success with any number of tinsel-bodied wet flies, in particular silver, but we do tend to use silver-bodied patterns more often than gold. I have never fished the James but one of my customers had good success with it during a 2011 fishing trip to the Adirondacks.