"The Conon No. 2" by Francis, Francis

Author Francis, Francis
Book A Book on Angling
Book Edition N/A
Page 360
Tags riverconon,

Material

  • Tag: Two turns of silver tinsel
  • Tail: Golden pheasant topping, veiled with strands of golden pheasant tippet
  • Body: First half - one turn of bright orange brown and yellow pig's wool, second half medium black pig's wool well picked out
  • Hackle: Black over black wool
  • Rib: Broad silver tinsel
  • Throat: Black, laid on thick
  • Wing: One golden pheasant tippet, bright peacock
  • Sides: Short Jungle-cock

Cites list

This pattern contains cites material. The following list is a suggestion of substitutes you can use for this pattern.

Animal Substitutes
Peacock
Jungle Cock

Original material

As written in the book:

Tag, tail, and body as before, merely changing black pig*s wool for the blue. The hackle is the same, but is dressed over the whole of the black wool (or half the body); wing, one tippet, with bright peacock over it, shoir jungle-cock on either side as before.

Note, before: Tag, two turns of silver tinsel; tail, one topping and some sprigs of tippet; body, one turn of bright orange brown, continued with yellow half-way up, and the remaining half with medium (inclining to light) blue, pig's wool, rough and well picked out; broadish silver tinsel; black hackle, pretty thick, but only laid on at the shoulder; wing, bright mottled peacock wing, with a shortish jungle-cock on either side, rather better than half the length of the wing.

Long material list

Part Material Type Color
Tag Tinsel
Two turns
Silver      
Tail Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Head Natural
Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Neck
Veiling
Natural
Body Pig Wool
Bright, one turn
Orange      
Pig Wool Yellow      
Pig Wool
Medium black, 1/2 body
Black      
Hackle Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Neck
Over black
Black      
Rib Tinsel
Broad
Silver      
Throat Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Neck
Laid on thick
Black      
Wing Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Neck
One
Natural
Peacock
Latin: Pavo cristatus
Cites
Feather
Bright
Natural
Sides Jungle Cock
Latin: Gallus sonneratii
Cites
Feather - Neck
short
Natural

Materials in pattern

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