"Goldfinch" by Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin

Author Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin
Book How to Dress Salmon Flies
Book Edition N/A
Page 240

Material

  • Hook: 1 1 3/4 inches
  • Tag: Silver, deep orange silk
  • Tail: Golden pheasant topping, Indian Crow
  • Butt: Black herl
  • Body: Light orange floss, or flat gold tinsel
  • Rib: Oval gold
  • Hackle: Golden olive
  • Throat: Blue Jay
  • Wing: Golden pheasant tippet in strands, orange Swan set upright
  • Cheeks: Indian Crow
  • Topping: Two or three Golden pheasant toppings
  • Horns: Blue and Yellow Macaw

Cites list

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

Animal Substitutes
Macaw

Original material

As written in the book:

(hook, 1 to 1 3/4 inches).
This pattern is exactly similar to the Black Gold-finch except for the body, which is either of light orange floss or flat gold tinsel.

Long material list

Part Material Type Color
Tag Tinsel Silver      
Silk
Deep orange
Orange      
Tail Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Head Natural
Indian Crow
Latin: Pyroderus scutatus
Feather Natural
Butt Ostrich
Latin: Struthio camelus
Herl Black      
Body Floss
Or flat gold tinsel
Orange - light
Rib Tinsel - Oval Gold      
Hackle Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Neck
Golden olive
Olive      
Throat Blue Jay Feather - Wing Blue      
Wing Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Neck
In strands
Natural
Swan
Latin: Genus: Cygnus
Feather - Wing
Set upright
Orange      
Other Indian Crow
Latin: Pyroderus scutatus
Feather Natural
Topping Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Head
Two or three
Natural
Horns Macaw
Latin: Tribe: Arini
Cites
Feather - Tail
Blue and yellow
Blue      

Materials in pattern

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