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| This dressing assigns a thread color since Roger Woolley does not and substitutes holopraphic tinsel for flat metal tinsel. |
Hook:
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14-16
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Thread:
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Camel
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Body:
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Copper holographic tinsel
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Hackle:
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Brown Partridge
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In Modern
Trout Fly Dressing (1936), Roger Woolley lists the Copper King, presumably dressed as a flashy attractor pattern, under the
“Fancy Wet Flies” heading. A fly might be termed
“fancy” for a number of reasons, though it seems to have less to do with the flashiness of the
dressing (even when the body of the fly is copper-colored tinsel) than the imagination of the fly tier or imitative nature of the pattern.
“Body.—Copper-coloured tinsel.
Hackle.—Brown partridge.”
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Nothing is really new in fly fishing or fly tying is it? I have been fishing a similar Soft Hackle for a couple of years with a Pearlescent tinsel for the body. Obviously, after reading this post, it really wasn't a new pattern after all.
ReplyDeleteMel, I'm sorry I missed your comment on an earlier post. I've posted quite a few flies on the blog that I've never tried - it's more about the history - but this is one I intend to get my fly box soon.
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