"Torrish" by Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin

Author Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin
Book How to Dress Salmon Flies
Book Edition N/A
Page 226

Material

  • Hook: 1 1/4 to 3 inches
  • Tag: Silver thread, golden yellow floss
  • Tail: Golden pheasant topping and tippet in strands
  • Butt: Black herl
  • Body: Oval silver tinsel. After 2/5 body: black herl joint separator. Veiled above and below with Indian Crow
  • Rib: Fine oval silver, over front 3/5 body
  • Hackle: Lemon
  • Throat: Deep orange
  • Wing: Black white-tipped Turkey tail strips. Teal. Yellow, scarlet, and orange Swan. Bustard, Florican and Golden Pheasant tail. Narrow strips of Pintail and barred Summer Duck
  • Roof: Brown Mallard
  • Cheek: Jungle Cock, Indian Crow
  • 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
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 and tippet in strands.
Butt: Black herl.
Body: Oval silver tinsel, butted at the junction of the first two-fifths with the subsequent three-fifths with black herl and veiled above and below with Indian Crow.
Ribs: Fine oval silver tinsel over the anterior three-fifths of the body.
Hackle: A lemon hackle (with the ribs).
Throat: A deep orange hackle.
Wings: Cheeks: Horns: (As in Dusty Miller, with the addition of Indian Crow over the Jungle Cock cheeks.)

Long material list

Part Material Type Color
Tag Tinsel Silver      
Floss Yellow - Golden      
Tail Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Head Natural
Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Neck
In strands
Natural
Butt Ostrich
Latin: Struthio camelus
Herl Black      
Body Tinsel - Oval
2/5 body
Silver      
Indian Crow
Latin: Pyroderus scutatus
Feather
Veil over and under
Natural
Ostrich
Latin: Struthio camelus
Herl
Joint separator
Black      
Tinsel - Oval
3/5 body
Silver      
Rib Tinsel - Oval
Fine. 3/5 body
Silver      
Hackle Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Neck Lemon      
Throat Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Neck
Deep orange
Orange      
Wing Turkey
Latin: Genus: Meleagris
Feather - Tail
White-tipped
Black      
Teal
Latin: Anas crecca
Feather - Flank Natural
Swan
Latin: Genus: Cygnus
Feather - Wing Yellow      
Swan
Latin: Genus: Cygnus
Feather - Wing Scarlet      
Swan
Latin: Genus: Cygnus
Feather - Wing Orange      
Kori Bustard
Latin: Ardeotis kori
Cites
Feather Natural
Florican
Latin: Otididae
Cites
Feather Natural
Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Tail Natural
Pintail
Latin: Anas acuta
Feather - Flank
Narrow
Natural
Wood Duck
Latin: Aix sponsa
Feather - Flank
Narrow
Natural
Roof Mallard
Latin: Anas platyrhynchos
Feather - Shoulder Brown      
Cheek Jungle Cock
Latin: Gallus sonneratii
Cites
Feather - Neck Natural
Indian Crow
Latin: Pyroderus scutatus
Feather Natural
Topping Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Head Natural
Horns Macaw
Latin: Tribe: Arini
Cites
Feather - Tail
Blue and yellow
Blue      

Materials in pattern

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