| DUCKFLY EMERGER (March-April) |
BLAE & BLACK (March-April) |
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Size 10-14 Kamasan B160
Black
Flat silver tinsel (tied round the bend)
Silver wire
Black silk
Two white cock hackle tips
Hot orange seal's fur
Two turns of black hen
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Size 10-14 Partridge L2A
Black
Fine oval silver tinsel
Black floss
Black hen
Starling
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| CONNEMARA BLACK (All season) |
SOOTY OLIVE (March-May) |
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Size 8-14 Partridge L2A
Black
Orange floss
Fine oval silver tinsel
Golden Pheasant topping
Black seal's fur
Black cock or hen with blue jay tied at throat
Bronze mallard
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Size 8-14 Kamasan B175
Black or brown
Fine oval gold tinsel
Golden pheasant tippets
Dark olive and brown olive seal's fur mixed in equal parts
Natural black hen
Bronze mallard
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| GOLDEN OLIVE (April-September) |
CLARET DABBLER (All season) |
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Size 8-12 Partridge L2A
Golden olive or brown
Fine oval gold tinsel
Golden pheasant topping
Golden olive seal's fur
Golden olive or light ginger cock
Bronze mallard
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Size 10 Kamasan B830 or Size 8 Partridge L2A
Brown
Fine oval gold tinsel
10 or 12 cock pheasant with tail fibres tied in equal to the length of the hook shank
Claret floss silk or claret seal's fur
A ginger cock palmered with a light claret cock hackle (three turns) at the shoulder
Slips of good quality bronze mallard tied in all round to envelop the whole body and reaching almost to the point of the tail
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| FRENCH PARTRIDGE MAYFLY (May-July) |
RAYMOND Guide to tying a Raymond [71 kB] (May-September) |
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Size 10 Kamasan B830 or Size 8-10 Partridge L2A or Size 8-10 Kamasan B175
Brown
Fine oval gold
Four or five fibres of cock pheasant centre tail
Natural raffia, moistened
Short medium-olive cock hackle, palmered
Medium-olive cock hackle rather long in fibre, with a French partridge hackle wound in front
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Size 8-12 Partridge L2A
Brown
Fine oval gold tinsel
Golden pheasant tippets
Pale golden olive seal's fur
Scarlet cock palmered with blue jay at the throat
Hen pheasant secondary, with slips or red, yellow and green swan between them
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GREEN PETER Guide to tying The Basil [84 kB] (May-September) |
MALLARD & CLARET (All season) |
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Size 8-12 Partridge L2A
Brown or black
Fine oval gold tinsel
Green olive seal's fur
Red game palmered and clipped on the tope edge
Four slips of hen pheasant secondary tied in flat on top of the body so as to partly envelop it-boat-wing
Style Red game
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Size 8-14 Partridge L2A
Black
Fine oval gold tinsel
Claret seal's fur
Claret, black, red-brown or ginger cock, according to preference
Bronze mallard
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