Dan MacIntosh, Sr designed and fished this fly on the St Mary's and the Margaree rivers ... at an early date : 1940-50s... the original had no body, a red (pine) squirrel wing and furnace hackle ... the pattern was fished at and acute downstream angle of cast, and dead-drifted a yard until it was then snapped under and fished across from the salmon lie ... the underwater "light-effect" caused many salmon to lift and follow the fly until a strike... today, several variations exist with wool body and hackles of various colours ... Dan MacIntosh, Jr followed the tradition...historically, Dan Sr guided Lee Wulff on the Margaree: one of Lee's first encounters with salar.
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