"Jungle Hornet" by Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin

Author Pryce-Tannatt, Thomas Edwin
Book How to Dress Salmon Flies
Book Edition N/A
Page 235

Material

  • Hook: 1 1/4 to 1 3/4 inches
  • Tag: Silver
  • Tail: Scarlet Ibis in strands. Jungle Cock, back to back
  • Butt: Cochybondhu hackle
  • Body: Two equal halves: Yellow and black Berlin wool wound together. Joint separator: cochybondhu hackle, veiled above with Jungle Cock, back to back
  • Throat: Cochybondhu hackle, longer than joint separator

Cites list

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Animal Substitutes
Jungle Cock

Original material

As written in the book:

(hook, 1 1/4 to 1 3/4 inches).
Tag: Silver tinsel.
Tail: Scarlet Ibis in strands and a pair of Jungle Cock feathers (back to back).
Butt: A cochybondhu hackle.
Body: In two equal halves, each of an equal number of turns of yellow and black Berlin wools wound together, and each butted at the joint with a cochybondhu hackle and veiled above with a pair of Jungle Cock feathers (back to back).
Throat: A cochybondhu hackle. (Each succeeding cochybondhu hackle to be larger in the fibre than the preceding one.)

Long material list

Part Material Type Color
Tag Tinsel Silver      
Tail Ibis
Latin: Eudocimus ruber
Feather
In strands
Scarlet      
Jungle Cock
Latin: Gallus sonneratii
Cites
Feather - Neck
Back to back
Natural
Butt Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Coch-y-bonddhu Natural
Body Wool - Berlin
Wound together with black, 1/2 body
Yellow      
Wool - Berlin
Wound together with yellow, 1/2 body
Black      
Jungle Cock
Latin: Gallus sonneratii
Cites
Feather - Neck
Veiling over body
Natural
Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Coch-y-bonddhu
Joint separator
Natural
Wool - Berlin
Wound together with black
Yellow      
Wool - Berlin
Wound together with yellow
Black      
Jungle Cock
Latin: Gallus sonneratii
Cites
Feather - Neck
Veiling over body
Natural
Throat Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Coch-y-bonddhu
Longer than joint separator
Natural

Materials in pattern

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