"Brown Shrimp" by Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin

Author Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin
Book How to Dress Salmon Flies
Book Edition N/A
Page 234
Tags grub,

Material

  • Hook: 3/4 to 1 1/4 inches
  • Tag: Gold
  • Tail: Golden pheasant breast, Jungle Cock back to back
  • Butt: Golden Pheasant breast, brown Partridge neck - used as hackles
  • Body: Hare's face. Joint separator in the middle as in butt, a bit longer
  • Throat: Same as joint separator, a bit longer

Cites list

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Animal Substitutes
Jungle Cock
Parrot
  • Feather - Tail => Swan : Feather - Wing
  • Feather - Tail => Turkey : Feather - Tail

Original material

As written in the book:

(hook, 3/4 to 1 1/4 inches).
Tag: Gold tinsel.
Tail: The tip of a Golden Pheasant's breast feather and a pair of Jungle Cock's feathers (back to back).
Butt: A golden Pheasant's breast feather, followed by a freckled brown Partridge neck feather - used as hackles.
Body: In two equal halves - fur from a Hare's face butted in the middle in the same way and with similar feathers as for the butt, the feathers, however, to be a bit longer.
Throat: The same as in the two butts, feathers to be longer still.

Long material list

Part Material Type Color
Tag Tinsel Gold      
Tail Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Chest Natural
Jungle Cock
Latin: Gallus sonneratii
Cites
Feather - Neck Natural
Butt Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Chest
Used as hackle
Natural
Partridge
Latin: Family: Phasianidae
Feather
Used as hackle
Brown      
Body Hare
Latin: Genus: Lepus
Fur - Mask Natural
Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Chest
Joint separator, used as hackle
Natural
Partridge
Latin: Family: Phasianidae
Feather
Joint separator, used as hackle
Brown      
Hare
Latin: Genus: Lepus
Fur - Mask
Face
Natural
Throat Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Chest
Used as hackle
Natural
Parrot
Latin: Order: Psittaciformes
Cites
Feather
Used as hackle
Natural

Materials in pattern

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