"Celebrated Evening Flies: No.4" by Blacker, William

Author Blacker, William
Book The Art of Angling
Book Edition December 8th 1843
Page 73

Material

  • Hook: No.9
  • Body: Bright yellow-green silk or mohair
  • Rib: Gold twist, flat silver tinsel
  • Tail: golden pheasant topping, long.
  • Hackle: Bright yellow-green, from tail, Optional golden plover back feather
  • Throat: Blue Jay
  • Wings: Two golden pheasant tippets, two golden pheasant toppings, slightly longer than the rest of the wing. Golden pheasant tail on the side. Two fibres of: peacock sword feather, yellow and blue macaw, argus pheasant, peacock's wing, silver pheasant and bustard

Cites list

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Animal Substitutes
Peacock
Macaw
Kori Bustard
  • Feather => Turkey : Feather - Tail

Original material

As written in the book:

Body - very gaudy, of bright yellow-green silk or mohair, ribbed with gold twist, and flat silver tinsel. Tail - golden pheasant topping, long. Legs - a bright yellow-green dyed hackle, from the tail up (jay feather at the shoulder). Wings two neck feathers of the golden pheasant, sprigged each side with the tail two toppings and feather of the same bird, sword feather of the peacock, yellow and blue macaw feelers, argus pheasant, peacock's wing, silver pheasant and bustard's feathers, two fibres of each (let the two toppings extend two-eighths of an inch longer than the other sprigging, except the two fibres of blue and yellow macaw tail feather). It may be made with the golden plover back feather for hackle, Hook No. 9.

Long material list

Part Material Type Color
Body Silk
Yellow-green. Or mohair
Yellow      
Rib Tinsel - Twist Gold      
Tinsel - Flat Silver      
Tail Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Head
Long
Natural
Hackle Feather
Yellow-green. Optional golden plover
Yellow      
Throat Blue Jay Feather - Wing Blue      
Wing Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Neck
Two
Natural
Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Head
Two
Natural
Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Tail
On side of tippet
Natural
Peacock
Latin: Pavo cristatus
Cites
Sword
Feather
Two fibers
Natural
Macaw
Latin: Tribe: Arini
Cites
Feather - Tail
Yellow-blue. Two fibers
Yellow      
Pheasant - Argus
Latin: Argusianus argus
Feather
Two fibers
Natural
Peacock
Latin: Pavo cristatus
Cites
Feather - Wing
Two fibers
Natural
Pheasant - Silver
Latin: Lophura nycthemera
Natural
Two fibers
Natural
Kori Bustard
Latin: Ardeotis kori
Cites
Feather
Two fibers
Natural

Materials in pattern

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