Name Tranquilizer Category Steelhead Tail Yellow Hackle Fibers Body Purple Wool or Dubbing Rib Oval Gold Tinsel, A Couple Turns Taken Under the Tail Collar Claret Hackle Wing Finely Marked Gray Digger Squirrel Tail (Sub Squirrel Tail)

The pattern for this fly came from the fine book by Dick Stewart and Farrow Allen, Flies for Steelhead. They write that this fly was originally tied by Mike Kennedy in sizes 8 and 10 for the run of Rogue River half-pounders. In was later popularized in larger sizes on the North Umpqua by Ed Harzel.

Note: Marty Sherman, editor for Flyfishing Magazine, who originally submitted this fly for Stewart & Allen wrote that Stewart & Allen made a mistake when they listed this pattern with a purple hackle in their book. Mr. Sherman informed me that the hackle should be claret.