A variant of John Barr's famous Copper John Fly Pattern, the Hillbilly version is tied on a curved hook with black goose biots for the tail. An excellent pattern wherever trout are found.

Hook: #1420 curved nymph
Bead: Copper or tungsten
Thread: Black
Weight: 0.0150.020
Tail: Black goose biots
Body: Copper wire
Wingcase: Thinskin and pearl flash
Thorax: Peacock herl
Legs: Partridge feather

** Great Smoky Mountain Fly Tying Books used in this series **

Hatches and Fly Patterns of the Great Smoky Mountains, by Don Kirk, https://amzn.to/2HLZuVT
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Angler's Companion, by Ian Rutter, https://amzn.to/2HQwDQr
Southeastern Flies, by L.J. DeCuir, https://amzn.to/3l0McTG

** Some of the other popular books used here: **

Dave Hughes, "Essential Trout Flies," 2017, https://amzn.to/3lbCZYX
David Klausmeyer's "Favorite Flies," 2020, https://amzn.to/3oeSNMa
Fly Pattern Encyclopedia: https://amzn.to/34U0rUe
Mike Valla's "Tying the Founding Flies," 2015, https://amzn.to/354oSir
Randal Scott Stetzer's "Flies, the Best One Thousand," 1992, https://amzn.to/34Q15mp

Savage Flies is a project with the mission of encouraging and teaching fly tying to as many people as possible. The channel is named after one of my western Maryland homewaters, the Savage River. I've been uploading at least three new videos a week (usually Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday).

Thanks for stopping by. Please let me know in the comments if you have any tying tips you would like to share or if you have any patterns you would like to see tied here.