"The Findhorn No.1" by Francis, Francis

Author Francis, Francis
Book A Book on Angling
Book Edition N/A
Page 375
Tags riverfindhorn,

Material

  • Hook: No. 2 or 3
  • Tag: Gold thread, puce floss
  • Tail: Golden pheasant topping and tippet, kingfisher
  • Butt: Black ostrich
  • Body: Lightish claret floss
  • Rib: Silver tinsel, gold twist. Spaced eaqually from eachother
  • Hackle: Light claret
  • Throat: Blue jay
  • Underwing: Two large golden pheasant tippet
  • Wing: Gold pheasant tail, red and blue macaw, slips of gled and dark bustard
  • Sides: Blue macaw tips, nearly half the length of the wing
  • Head: Orange mohair, wound like a hackle

Cites list

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

Animal Substitutes
Macaw
Kori Bustard
  • Feather => Turkey : Feather - Tail

Original material

As written in the book:

Tag, gold thread and puce floss; tail, a good-sized topping, some tippet, and a kingfisher feather; but, black ostrich; body, lightish claret floss: silver tinsel and gold twist (not together but equidistant); hackle, light claret, blue jay at shoulder; wing, two large tippet feathers, almost the full length of the wing, over it sprigs of gold pheasant tail, a good many sprigs of both red and blue macaw, slips of gled and dark bustard; on either shoulder, nearly half the length of the wing, the tips of two blue macaw feathers; the head is composed of orange mohair, set out like a hackle, and forming a ruff. Most of the Findhorn flies are mounted in this way, and it makes them very conspicuous. In some Sir Alexander used the soft silky Pinna marina and it has a very striking effect. The hook of this fly i sa No. 2 or 3

Long material list

Part Material Type Color
Tag Thread Gold      
Floss
Puce
 
Tail Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Head Natural
Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Neck Natural
Kingfisher
Latin: Alcedo atthis
Feather Blue      
Butt Ostrich
Latin: Struthio camelus
Herl Black      
Body Floss Claret - light
Rib Tinsel Silver      
Tinsel - Twist
Equal distance between silver and gold
Gold      
Hackle Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Neck Claret - light
Throat Blue Jay Feather - Wing Blue      
Other Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Neck
Two large
Natural
Wing Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Tail Natural
Macaw
Latin: Tribe: Arini
Cites
Feather Red      
Macaw
Latin: Tribe: Arini
Cites
Feather Blue      
Gled
Latin: Milvus milvus
Feather
Slip
Natural
Kori Bustard
Latin: Ardeotis kori
Cites
Feather
Dark
Natural
Sides Macaw
Latin: Tribe: Arini
Cites
Feather
Tips, half the length of the wing
Blue      
Head Other Mohair
Tied in like hackle
Black      

Materials in pattern

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