Tycoon

Body: Orange floss
Ribbing: Gold tinsel
Tip: Scarlet floss
Tail: Scarlet and yellow
Hackle: Claret shoulder Yellow tied Palmer
Wing: Black, white, scarlet, white, married

I'm hard pressed to come up with any history on The Tycoon. It is pictured in Ray Bergman's Trout (1938) and it apparently survives until the book "Flies" by J. Edson Leonard in 1950, and then is gone. I like this fly though, it's almost a hybrid of several other flies, always with a twist. The wing is ALMOST a Parmacheene Bell wing, but with black on top. The Tail is like that of a Munro or Captain, body like a Forsyth or Deacon, and then there's that strange Claret beard hackle or "shoulder" as Ray Bergman calls it. And how about the red floss tip? A very interesting pattern all the way around.