"Half Grey and Brown " by Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin

Author Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin
Book How to Dress Salmon Flies
Book Edition N/A
Page 239

Material

  • Hook: 1 1/4 to 2 inches
  • Tag: Silver, light orange floss
  • Tail: Golden pheasant topping and breast feather
  • Body: 1/2 grey, 1/2 fiery brown Seal's fur
  • Rib: Oval silver
  • Hackle: Grizzly
  • Throat: Fiery brown and lemon
  • Wings: Mixed. Golden pheasant tippet in strands. Orange, yellow, and scarlet Swan. Pintail and Golden Pheasant tail
  • Roof: Brown Mallard
  • Head: Black herl

Original material

As written in the book:

(hook, 1 1/4 to 2 inches).
Tag: Silver thread and light orange floss.
Tail: A topping and the tip of a Golden Pheasant's breast feather.
Body: First half, grey Seal's fur (or grey Squirrel) ; second half, fiery brown Seal's fur.
Ribs: Oval silver tinsel.
Hackle: A grizzled hackle.
Throat: A fiery brown hackle, followed by a lemon hackle.
Wings: Mixed - tippet in strands; "married" strands of orange, yellow, and scarlet Swan, Pintail and Golden Pheasant tail; brown Mallard strips over.
Head: Black herl.

Long material list

Part Material Type Color
Tag Tinsel Silver      
Floss
Light orange
Orange      
Tail Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Head Natural
Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Chest Natural
Body Seal Fur
1/2 body
Gray      
Seal Fur
1/2 body
Brown - fiery
Rib Tinsel - Oval Silver      
Hackle Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Neck Grizzly
Throat Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Neck Brown - fiery
Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Neck Lemon      
Other Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Neck
In strands
Natural
Swan
Latin: Genus: Cygnus
Feather - Wing Orange      
Swan
Latin: Genus: Cygnus
Feather - Wing Yellow      
Swan
Latin: Genus: Cygnus
Feather - Wing Scarlet      
Pintail
Latin: Anas acuta
Feather - Flank Natural
Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Tail Natural
Roof Mallard
Latin: Anas platyrhynchos
Feather - Shoulder Brown      
Head Ostrich
Latin: Struthio camelus
Herl Black      

Materials in pattern

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