Fly of the week: The Black Ghost - Adirondack Almanack

Fly of the week: The Black Ghost - Adirondack Almanack

The Black Ghost streamer pattern was created by Herbert “Herb” Welch while guiding and fishing the Rangeley Lakes region in Maine sometime between 1917 and 1927.  Welch tied the pattern to specifically catch the region’s sizable brook trout. The original pattern used a feather wing however, over the years it has been tied with bucktail and marabou for the wing as well. The Black Ghost continues to catch trout, salmon and almost everything that s…