Carrie Stevens (1882 - 1970) was a milliner by trade. She lived in Maine. She was the wife of Wallace Stevens, a successful guide. She regularly built and glued feather combinations for ladies' hats and hatbands. The feather combinations were either subtle or rich depending on that year's fashion. She did not invent the feather wing streamer but she did significantly advance the design to make it act more like a bait fish when retrieved in the water and is credited with the design of what we now know as the Gray Ghost.

The main design feature of her streamers was the glued double wing assembles with cheeks and shoulders, attached to each side of the hook shank and not on top. There have been lots of variations on the general design, both in color as well as construction method. We believe that Carrie’s glued wing method is far more superior to some non glues wings. Carrie's glued wing assembles produce a more realistic tail (or 'wing') wiggle. The wing in this position masked the hook and the shoulder sections of the wings imitates the gills.