"Sherbrook" by Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin

Author Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin
Book How to Dress Salmon Flies
Book Edition N/A
Page 219

Material

  • Hook: 1 to 1 1/4 inches
  • Tag: Silver thread, lemon floss
  • Tail: Golden pheasant topping, Indian Crow
  • Body: 1/3 pale orange, 2/3 pale blue floss
  • Ribs: Oval silver
  • Throat: Pale blue
  • Wing: Mixed Golden pheasant tippet in strands. Yellow, white, orange, crimson, and blue Swan. Golden Pheasant tail, Florican and Peacock wing. Narrow strips of barred Summer Duck and Pintail
  • Roof: Brown Mallard over
  • Topping: Golden pheasant  topping
  • Horns: Blue and Yellow Macaw

Original material

As written in the book:

(hook, 1 to 1 1/4 inches).
Tag: Silver thread and lemon floss.
Tail: A topping and Indian Crow.
Body: First third, pale orange floss; remainder, pale blue floss.
Ribs: Oval silver tinsel.
Throat: A pale blue hackle.
Wings: Mixed tippet in strands; "married" strands of yellow, white, orange, crimson, and blue Swan, Golden Pheasant tail, Florican and Peacock wing; "married" narrow strips of barred Summer Duck and Pintail; narrow strips of brown Mallard over; a topping over all.
Horns: Blue and Yellow Macaw.