"Glow-worm" by Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin

Author Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin
Book How to Dress Salmon Flies
Book Edition N/A
Page 235
Tags grub,

Material

  • Hook: 3/4 to 1 1/4 inches
  • Tag: Silver
  • Tail: A tuft of scarlet Berlin wool
  • Butt: Cochybondu hackle
  • Body: Oval gold. Cochybondhu hackle as joint separator, a bit longer than butt hackle
  • Throat: Cochybondhu hackle, a bit longer than joint separator

Original material

As written in the book:

(hook, 3/4 to 1 1/4 inches).
Tag: Silver tinsel.
Tail: A tuft of scarlet Berlin wool.
Butt: A cochybondu hackle.
Body: In two equal halves of oval gold tinsel, tightly twisted round before being wound on, butted at the joint with a cochybondhu hackle, somewhat longer in the fibre than the previous hackle.
Throat: A cochybondhu hackle longer still in the fibre.

Long material list

Part Material Type Color
Tag Tinsel Silver      
Tail Wool - Berlin
A tuft
Scarlet      
Butt Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Coch-y-bonddhu Natural
Body Tinsel - Oval Gold      
Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Coch-y-bonddhu
Joint separator - a bit longer than the butt hackle
Natural
Tinsel - Oval Gold      
Throat Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Coch-y-bonddhu
A bit longer than the joint separator
Natural

Materials in pattern

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