"Dandy" by Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin

Author Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin
Book How to Dress Salmon Flies
Book Edition N/A
Page 210

Material

  • Hook: 1 1/4 to 2 inches
  • Tag: Silver thread, lemon floss
  • Tail: Golden pheasant topping, Jungle Cock and Blue Chatterer
  • Butt: Black herl
  • Body: 2/3 flat silver, 1/3 pale blue floss
  • Ribs: Fine oval silver
  • Hackle: Pale blue, from floss
  • Throat: Guinea
  • Wing: Jungle Cock, back to back. One pair of Golden pheasant tippets over
  • Sides: Broad barred Summer Duck
  • Cheeks: Blue Chatterer
  • Topping: Golden pheasant topping
  • 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
Jungle Cock
Macaw

Original material

As written in the book:

(hook, 1 1/4 to 2 inches).
Tag: Silver thread and lemon floss.
Tail: A topping, Jungle Cock and Blue Chatterer (the last somewhat shorter than the preceding).
Butt: Black herl.
Body: First two-thirds, flat silver tinsel; remainder, pale blue floss.
Ribs: Fine oval silver tinsel.
Hackle: A pale blue hackle, beginning with the pale blue floss.
Throat: Speckled Gallina.
Wings: A pair of Jungle Cock feathers (back to back), and one pair of tippets dressed as in the Black Ranger above.
Sides: Broad strips of barred Summer Duck, covering part of tippets up to bar nearest root.
Cheeks: Blue Chatterer; a topping over.
Horns: Blue and Yellow Macaw.

Long material list

Part Material Type Color
Tag Tinsel Silver      
Tail Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Head Natural
Jungle Cock
Latin: Gallus sonneratii
Cites
Feather - Neck
And blue chatterer
Natural
Butt Ostrich
Latin: Struthio camelus
Herl Black      
Body Tinsel
2/3 body
Silver      
Floss
1/3 body. Pale blue
Blue      
Other Tinsel - Oval
Fine
Silver      
Hackle Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Neck
Pale blue
Blue      
Throat Guinea Feather - Neck Natural
Wing Jungle Cock
Latin: Gallus sonneratii
Cites
Feather - Neck
Back to back
Natural
Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Neck
Over jungle cock
Natural
Sides Wood Duck
Latin: Aix sponsa
Feather - Flank
Barred
Natural
Cheek Cotinga - Spangled
Latin: Cotinga cayana
Feather Natural
Topping Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Head Natural
Horns Macaw
Latin: Tribe: Arini
Cites
Feather - Tail
Blue and yellow
Black      

Materials in pattern

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