"Orange Parson" by Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin

Author Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin
Book How to Dress Salmon Flies
Book Edition N/A
Page 211

Material

  • Hook: 1 1/4 to 2 inches
  • Tag: Silver thread, lilac floss
  • Tail: Golden pheasant topping and tippet in strands
  • Body: Orange floss. Orange, scarlet, and fiery brown Seal's fur, picked out
  • Hackle: Lemon
  • Throat: Cock of the Rock
  • Wing: Pair of Golden pheasant tippet, veiled with Cock of the Rock
  • Sides: Barred Summer Duck
  • Cheeks: Blue Chatterer
  • Topping: Two or three Golden pheasant toppings
  • Horns: Blue and Yellow Macaw

Cites list

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Animal Substitutes
Cock of the rock
Macaw

Original material

As written in the book:

(hook, 1 1/4 to 2 inches).
Tag: Silver thread and lilac floss.
Tail: A topping and tippet in strands.
Body: Orange floss, orange, scarlet, and fiery brown Seal's fur in equal sections (picked out).
Hackle: A lemon hackle.
Throat: Cock of the Rock.
Wings: A pair of tippets (back to back) veiled with Cock of the Rock.
Sides: Barred Summer Duck strips.
Cheeks: Blue Chatterer ; two or three toppings over.
Horns: Blue and Yellow Macaw.

Long material list

Part Material Type Color
Tag Tinsel Silver      
Floss
Lilac
 
Tail Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Head Natural
Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Neck
In strands
Natural
Body Floss Orange      
Seal Fur Orange      
Seal Fur Scarlet      
Seal Fur
Picked out fur
Brown - fiery
Hackle Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Neck Lemon      
Throat Cock of the rock
Latin: Rupicola *
Cites
Feather Natural
Wing Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Neck Natural
Cock of the rock
Latin: Rupicola *
Cites
Feather
Veiling the golden pheasant
Natural
Sides Wood Duck
Latin: Aix sponsa
Feather - Flank Natural
Other Cotinga - Spangled
Latin: Cotinga cayana
Feather Natural
Topping Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Head
2 or 3
Natural
Horns Macaw
Latin: Tribe: Arini
Cites
Feather - Tail
Blue and yellow
Blue      

Materials in pattern

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