Supervisor

Supervisor

Body: Medium flat silver tinsel.

Tail: A thin section of red wool, rather short.

Ribbing: Narrow oval silver tinsel (optional).

Throat: A small bunch of white hackle fibers.

Wings: An extremely small bunch of white bucktail, over which are four blue saddle hackles. The bucktail is nearly as long as teh hackles. Both extending well beyond the tail.

Shoulders: Green hackle.

Cheeks: Jungle Cock.

Topping: Peacock herl, as long as the wing.

Head: Black

 
The Supervisor usually is considered to be the most important of the Maine type streamer flies, especially for trout and landlocked salmon in waters where smelt exist. The idea for it's dressing was concieved by Warden Supervisor Joseph S. Stickney, of Saco Maine, while fishing at Moose Pond in Maine in 1925.