"Red Sandy" by Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin

Author Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin
Book How to Dress Salmon Flies
Book Edition N/A
Page 225

Material

  • Hook: 1 1/4 to 3 inches
  • Tag: Silver, golden yellow floss
  • Tail: Golden pheasant topping, Indian Crow and Blue Chatterer
  • Butt: Scarlet Berlin wool
  • Body: Flat silver
  • Rib: Fine oval silver
  • Hackle: Badger dyed deep orange
  • Throat: Jay, or Speckled Guinea dyed blue in the larger sizes
  • Wing: Peacock wing, yellow, scarlet, and blue Swan, Bustard, Florican, and Golden Pheasant tail. Two strands of Peacock sword feather above. Narrow strips of Teal and barred Summer Duck
  • Roof: Brown Mallard
  • Sides: Jungle Cock
  • Cheeks: Blue Chatterer
  • Horns: Blue and Scarlet Macaw
  • Head: Scarlet Berlin wool

Cites list

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

Animal Substitutes
Peacock
Kori Bustard
  • Feather => Turkey : Feather - Tail
Florican
  • Feather => Peacock : Feather - Wing
Jungle Cock
Macaw

Original material

As written in the book:

(hook, 1 1/4 to 3 inches).
Tag: Silver thread and golden yellow floss.
Tail: A topping, Indian Crow and Blue Chatterer over.
Butt: Scarlet Berlin wool.
Body: Flat silver tinsel.
Ribs: Fine oval silver tinsel.
Hackle: A badger hackle dyed deep orange.
Throat: Jay, or Speckled Gallina dyed blue in the larger sizes.
Wings, Sides, Cheeks: As in Jock Scott precisely, except that the blue Swan is omitted from the mixed "sheat", and there is the addition of Indian Crow under the Blue Chatterer cheeks
Horns: Blue and Scarlet Macaw.
Head: Scarlet Berlin wool.

Long material list

Part Material Type Color
Tag Tinsel Silver      
Floss Yellow - Golden      
Tail Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Head Natural
Indian Crow
Latin: Pyroderus scutatus
Feather Natural
Cotinga - Spangled
Latin: Cotinga cayana
Feather Blue      
Butt Wool - Berlin Scarlet      
Body Tinsel - Flat Silver      
Rib Tinsel - Oval
Fine
Silver      
Hackle Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Badger
Deep orange
Orange      
Throat Blue Jay Feather - Wing
Or Guinea dyed blue in larger size
Natural
Wing Peacock
Latin: Pavo cristatus
Cites
Feather - Wing Natural
Swan
Latin: Genus: Cygnus
Feather - Wing Yellow      
Swan
Latin: Genus: Cygnus
Feather - Wing Scarlet      
Swan
Latin: Genus: Cygnus
Feather - Wing Blue      
Kori Bustard
Latin: Ardeotis kori
Cites
Feather Natural
Florican
Latin: Otididae
Cites
Feather Natural
Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Tail Natural
Peacock
Latin: Pavo cristatus
Cites
Feather - Tail
Two strands of sword, above wing
Natural
Teal
Latin: Anas crecca
Feather - Flank
Narrow
Natural
Wood Duck
Latin: Aix sponsa
Feather - Flank
Narrow
Natural
Roof Mallard
Latin: Anas platyrhynchos
Feather - Shoulder Brown      
Sides Jungle Cock
Latin: Gallus sonneratii
Cites
Feather - Neck Natural
Other Cotinga - Spangled
Latin: Cotinga cayana
Feather Blue      
Horns Macaw
Latin: Tribe: Arini
Cites
Feather - Tail
Blue and scarlet
Blue      
Head Wool - Berlin Scarlet      

Materials in pattern

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