The Gray Ghost might just be the best fly for large trout ever invented. The fly set records in Maine for brook trout, one which inventor Carrie Stevens herself held for awhile, and yet it catches large trout seemingly everywhere else as well. One look at the silhouettes of record trout in Dan Bailey's fly shop in Montana will bear this out. Fish after fish was caught with the Gray Ghost.

Tag: Flat silver tinsel
Body: Orange floss
Ribbing: Flat silver tinsel
Underbelly: Four to six strands of peacock herl, then white bucktail
Throat: Golden pheasant crest
Wing: Golden pheasant crest, then four gray hackles;
crest and hackles are of equal length
Shoulders: A silver pheasant body feather
Cheeks: Jungle cock
Head: Black with an orange band