Dette Fly - Coffin Fly 1-Piece Wrapped olive with red edges

Wrapped olive with red edges at keeper and male ferrules

Red wraps with silver tipping at the winding check

The vintage tube has an imprint of the original owner’s name present from an old label

Powell grip is only lightly soiled

Badged for Stoddard's Boston

Dette Fly - Coffin Fly 1-Piece Wrapped olive with red edgesFor sale here is an authentic Catskill dry fly by the Dettes the Coffin Fly. This fly comes from the collection of a Sullivan County sportsman who, as a kid, grew up around many of the legendary Catskill fly tiers. His uncle was also close friends with many of them. Most of his Dette flies were acquired from another private collector who over the years had regularly acquired his flies directly from the Dettes. Further provenance details will be