Border Fly - Roger Woolley - West Country/Devon Wet Fly

This is a pattern from Roger Woolley's 1939 edition of "Modern Trout Fly Dressing" in the section titled West Country/Devon Wet Flies. There are 18 patterns listed and most have tails and none exactly match Cutcliffe. I am tying this one "Cutcliffe" style and I'll do another one per Woolley's instructions. These flies are in the "wet fly" category but are tied very much in a hackled dry fly methodology. I think at this time in the film flies were considered wet...that definition wavers until the 1970s when Vince Marinaro firmly puts flush in the film floating flies as "dry". Woolley lists the pattern as: Hook size 1 or 2 equivalent to 13 or 14 Body is blue fur with two turns of bright red silk at tail end. Hackle and Whisks (tail) - light furnace cock Enjoy!