"Rosy Dawn" by Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin

Author Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin
Book How to Dress Salmon Flies
Book Edition N/A
Page 212

Material

  • Hook: 1 1/4 to 2 inches
  • Tag: Gold
  • Tail: Golden pheasant topping and tippet in strands
  • Butt: Black herl
  • Body: 1/2 embossed silver, 1/2 oval gold. Magenta hackle as joint separator
  • Throat: Magenta, pale blue
  • Wing: Golden pheasant tippet pair. Yellow, blue, and scarlet Swan, Golden Pheasant tail
  • Sides: Jungle Cock
  • Topping: Two or three Golden pheasant toppings
  • Horns: Blue and Scarlet Macaw.

Cites list

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Animal Substitutes
Jungle Cock
Macaw

Original material

As written in the book:

(hook, 1 1/4 to 2 inches).
Tag: Gold tinsel.
Tail: A topping and tippet in strands.
Butt: Black herl.
Body: In two equal halves first half, em-bossed silver tinsel; second half, oval gold tinsel, butted at the joint with magenta hackle.
Throat: A magenta hackle, followed by a pale blue hackle.
Wings: A pair of tippets (back to back), veiled with "married" strands of yellow, blue, and scarlet Swan and Golden Pheasant tail.
Sides: Jungle Cock ; two or three toppings over.
Horns: Blue and Scarlet Macaw.

Long material list

Part Material Type Color
Tag Tinsel Gold      
Tail Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Head Natural
Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Neck
In strands
Natural
Butt Ostrich
Latin: Struthio camelus
Herl Black      
Body Tinsel - Embossed
1/2 body
Silver      
Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Neck
Joint separator
Magent      
Tinsel - Oval Gold      
Throat Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Neck Magent      
Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Neck
Pale blue
Blue      
Wing Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Neck Natural
Swan
Latin: Genus: Cygnus
Feather - Wing Yellow      
Swan
Latin: Genus: Cygnus
Feather - Wing Blue      
Swan
Latin: Genus: Cygnus
Feather - Wing Scarlet      
Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Tail Natural
Sides Jungle Cock
Latin: Gallus sonneratii
Cites
Feather - Neck Natural
Topping Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Head
Two or three
Natural
Horns Macaw
Latin: Tribe: Arini
Cites
Feather - Tail
Blue and scarlet
Blue      

Materials in pattern

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