Orange Coachman from Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) by Mary Orvis Marbury

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Ingredients are guesses as there is no recipe in the book

Hook: #8 straight eye
Thread: claret
Tag: gold
Butt: Peacock herl
Body: orange floss
Thorax: Peacock herl
Hackle: yellow rooster
Wing: white quill

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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