tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13361533331275165432024-03-12T22:22:45.693-04:00SOFT HACKLES, TIGHT LINESAn Online Soft Hackle Pattern Book
Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800750418606011894noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1336153333127516543.post-22570510151165131912017-09-06T06:30:00.002-04:002017-09-06T16:10:10.958-04:00Breaking Off<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">It was a good run.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">If I had had the wherewithal to continue posting through January 2018, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Soft Hackles, Tight Lines</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> would have been in operation for four-and-a-half years. My first posting was 3 June 2013. On the whole, the blog has included 110 posts with 106 devoted to a historical account of specific, related dressings, comprising almost 50,000 words and 166 photos of flies I have tied to represent those dressings and, quite often, their variations. While there are many more of flies that deserve to be researched, written up, and tied, the blog has come to occupy more time than I can devote to it now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">It has been a labor of love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I very much appreciate the readers I have had throughout this project, from the outset to the eleventh hour. A few of my favorite posts are still available at the following links:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 26.6667px;"><a href="https://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2013/06/black-spider.html">Black Spider</a> <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2015/09/bracken-clock-or-brechan-clock.html">Bracken Clock</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 26.6667px;"><a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2013/12/syls-nymph.html">Syl’s Nymph</a> <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2015/11/hare-ear-flymph-hare-ear.html">Hare’s Ear Flymph</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 26.6667px;"><a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-breadcrust.html">Breadcrust</a> <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2015/12/starling-and-herl-or-brown-clock.html">Starling and Herl</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 26.6667px;"> <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2014/12/gray-hackle-peacock-zulu-orl-fly-and.html">Gray Hackle Peacock</a> <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2017/05/dark-snipe-and-green.html">Dark Snipe and Green</a><br /> <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2015/03/blue-partridge.html">Blue Partridge</a> <a href="https://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2017/06/stone-fly-stone-flye-or-flie-and.html">Stone Fly</a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I cannot resist listing some my favorite patterns for fishing on my homewaters in Western North Carolina and East Tennessee, in wide tailraces or the Great Smoky Mountains and the pasture streams of the New River Valley. I have not tried to name the originators of the pattern, only my sources. My additions or alternative materials are listed in parentheses.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1. Dark
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Muskrat or mole dubbed thinly on tying silk so that tying silk shows through distinctly<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Dark mole
fur spun on red silk to form a taper toward the hackle, with two or three
turns exposed at the tail<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hackle:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Starling
(smoky dun starling rump or crow covert)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">4. March
Brown - Nemes<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hook:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">10-14<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Silk:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Orange silk
(or yellow)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Tail:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Brown
Partridge (optional)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Rib:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Extra
small flat gold tinsel (or medium gold wire)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Body:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hare’s
mask mixed with hare’s ear (or brownish rabbit shoulder mixed with hare’s
mask)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hackle:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Brown
partridge (two-and-half turns, so that slightly more hackle is situated on top of the
hook shank, the vaguest suggestion of winging)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">5. Pheasant
Tail - Nemes<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hook:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">16-22<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Silk:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Dark brown
thread (burnt orange, olive dun,
purple, etc. - matched to the thorax)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Tail:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Pheasant
tail tips, optional<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Rib:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Extra
small copper wire (or gold, with olive thread)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Body:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Pheasant
tail<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">(Thorax:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><i>Sulfur</i></span></span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">,
olive, purple, etc. superfine dubbing - matched to the thread)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hackle:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Brown
partridge<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">6. Light
Snipe and Yellow - Leisenring<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hook:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">14-16<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Silk:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Primrose
thread<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Rib:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Small gold
wire<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Body:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Primrose silk
buttonhole twist (Coats and Clark’s 72-A baby yellow, size D, for preference)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hackle:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Snipe
undercovert<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">7. Black
Spider - Baillie, Stewart<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hook:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">16-20<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Thread:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Dark brown
thread<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Body/</span></i></div>
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hackle:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Starling
twisted on brown silk and palmered toward the eye of the hook (or waxed red or claret silk)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">8. Grouse
and Orange - Woolley, Nemes<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hook:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">12-18<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Silk:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Orange
silk <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Body:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Tying silk<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Thorax:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Dark
hare’s ear, optional (Nemes’ addition)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hackle:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Speckled-brown
red grouse covert<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Tip:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Flat gold
tinsel, optional (popular in earlier incarnations of the pattern)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">9. Brown or Gray
Hackle - Leisenring<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hook:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">10-16<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Silk:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Wine silk (or wine thread) or primrose
silk (or primrose thread)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Rib:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Extra
small flat gold tinsel, slightly tipping the herl body<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Body:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Bronzy
peacock herl<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hackle:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Red furnace or pale
ginger furnace - matched to the corresponding silk/thread color<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">10. Orange
Flie - Cotton<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hook:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">14-18<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Silk:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Orange
silk (or gold)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Body:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Orange
wool (burnt orange angora goat)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hackle:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Black
hackle (webby American crow neck or, for different parts of the season, starling back, nearer the rump)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">11. Rough-Bodied
Poult - Edmonds and Lee<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hook:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">14-18<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Silk:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Primrose
silk<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Body:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Buff
opossum fur dubbed thinly on tying silk so that tying silk shows through
distinctly<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hackle:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Young
grouse undercovert (bobwhite quail undercovert or, for a lighter fly,
mourning dove undercovert)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">12. Red
Fox Squirrel Nymph - Whitlock<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hook:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">8-16<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Silk:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Orange
thread<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Tail:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Red fox
squirrel back fur, optional<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Rib:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Gold twist
(medium gold wire or small flat gold tinsel)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Abdomen:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Red fox
squirrel belly fur<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Thorax:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Red fox
squirrel back fur<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hackle:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Brown
speckled hen, mottled red grouse covert, or brown partridge back<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">13. Gray
Hackle Red - Hughes<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hook:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">10-16<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Thread:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Black<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Tip:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Small flat
gold tinsel<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Tail:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Bright,
dyed-red hackle fibers<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">(Rib:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Extra
small copper wire, reverse-ribbed)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Body:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Bronzy
peacock herl<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.95pt;" valign="top" width="109"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hackle:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 444.0pt;" valign="top" width="592"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Stiffer, darker grizzly
hen (two turns, no longer than the gold tip)</span></i></div>
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Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800750418606011894noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1336153333127516543.post-91983329801036325052017-08-02T06:30:00.001-04:002018-06-25T13:23:21.611-04:00Doctor Lyte Palmer<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rather than using “dingy-orange worsted wool” for the body, this dressing uses orange hare’s mask to give the body a slightly scragglier look. It also substitutes a ginger hackles for honey dun and a braided tinsel that seats more deeply and securely in the hare's mask body than the prescribed flat tinsel. Braided tinsel aligns with earlier precedents.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Hook:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">12-14<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Thread:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Rust brown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> Rib:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Vintage, fine gold twist wound along front edge
of peacock herl rib<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Ginger cock hackle slightly smaller than front
hackle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Ginger cock hackle with a faint, medium dun list,
slightly larger than the palmer hackle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">James Leisenring includes the Doctor Lyte Palmer
in <i>The Art of Tying the Wet Fly & Fishing the Flymph</i> (1941)
that he has “found at times very deadly.” It was originally dressed by one of
his “fishing companions, an expert flytier, Dr. H. W. Lyte of Allentown,
Pennsylvania.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Leisenring's dressing of the Doctor Lyte Palmer calls for:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“HOOK 13,14<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">SILK Orange.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">HACKLE Pure honey
dun of rich color and medium stiffness—two turns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">RIB Fine peacock
herl of the sword feather—one of the very long, thin fibers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">RIB #2 Very narrow
gold tinsel wound right alongside of the peacock herl rib and in front of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">RIBBING HACKLE
Pure honey dun hackle slightly smaller than the front hackle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">BODY Dingy-orange
worsted wool.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sylvester Nemes leaves Doctor Lyte Palmer out of
the dressings he included in his coverage of Leisenring’s <i>Art of Tying the Wet Fly</i> from his <i>Two
Centuries of Soft-Hackled Flies</i> (2004), but it is likely the sort of fly Joe Humphrey had in mind in
his phenomenal textbook, <i>Trout Tactics</i> (1981), in his
observations on fishing the wet fly, particularly in his Pennsylvania
limestone home waters: “When caddies hatches are heavy in April or
early May, try this: fish only heavy, broken pocket water—forget the flats.
Use a short line and work downstream and fish only the pockets in behind
boulders and breaks. Use a well-dress palmered #10 or #8 wet fly, and bounce
the flies in the pockets. A long rod of nine feet or better can be an
advantage when trying to hold wet flies in one specific area. Heavy riffs or
currents push through the middle of a line and drag your flies out of
productive water at edges of the currents. The trout never get a good look at
your fly or refuse them as they drag; a longer rod can hold them there since
there is less line on the water.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Leisenring’s Doctor Lyte Palmer recalls one of
the four palmer flies, the Golden Palmer, that Richard Bowlker included in his
1757 edition of <i>The Art of Angling</i>,
but which his son Charles excluded from his own 1774 edition: “His body is
made of orange-coloured silk, ribbed down with a peacock’s harle and gold
twist, with the red hackle of a cock wrapt over the body: The hook, No. 5, or
6, according to the water you fish in.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800750418606011894noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1336153333127516543.post-62086089052369520842017-07-05T06:30:00.001-04:002018-06-25T13:23:33.416-04:00Thornfly Dun; Landrail Dun; Dark and Light Sedge; or, Silverhorns<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This dressing substitutes American woodcock undercovert for landrail undercovert. It is dressed more heavily to align it with William Blacker's Red Palmer Fly, which T. E. Pritt lists as a precedent. It finishes the fly in front of the head rather than behind it. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">American woodcock undercovert<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Head:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Two distinct strains of dressing the Thornfly
Dun seem to exist. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Drawing the connection between these two pattern groups makes two assumptions: first, that the name Thornfly (in whatever form) corresponding with a hatching period beginning in late May or early June correlates different representations; second, that these dressings are, as the name dun often seems to distinguish, caddis or sedge flies.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> The more popular dressings exhibit a general orange-red
cast in the bodies, hackles, and heads. They have much in common with the </span><a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2016/08/light-sedge-or-light-dun.html" style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Light Dun</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> that Michael Theakston describes in his </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">List of Natural Flies</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> (1843). However, many of the dressings also emphasize a darker overall color,
with purplish black bodies and darker dun-colored hackles. Dressings for this
June hatch have more in common with the Silverhorns sedge that Alfred Ronalds
lists for June fishing in </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">The
Fly-fisher’s Entomology</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> (1837). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In the former category is the Thornfly Dun, no.
49, that T. E. Pritt includes in <i>Yorkshire
Trout Flies</i> (1885) and its 1886 reworking, <i>North-Country Flies</i>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“<b>Wings.</b>—Hackled with a Landrail’s feather, taken from under the
wing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Body.</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">—Orange silk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Head.</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">—Peacock herl.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Pritt notes that the Thornfly Dun is “a very
excellent fly in a good bold brown water on warm days in summer, from June
onwards. It is a variation of No. 5 [the Brown Owl], and equally useful.
Dressed with a redder feather it is the same fly as that known as Blacker’s
Red.” After Pritt, Harfield Edmonds and Norman Lee seem to offer two
variations on the Thornfly Dun for June sedge dressings. They recommend, like
Pritt, their Dark and <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2016/08/light-sedge-or-light-dun.html">Light Sedges</a> for fishing from the “middle of June to the
end of the season.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Despite the reference to Blacker, Pritt’s Thornfly
Dun seems more aligned to manuscript dressings like Large Thorn Fly Dun
recorded by Jonathan Pickard in 1820 and printed by Robert L. Smith in <i>The North Country Fly: Yorkshire’s Soft
Hackle Tradition</i> (2015): “<i>Orange
silk, peacock harl in the head feather from the inside of a landrail’s wing</i>.”
Smith also prints another 1820 list by William Robinson with an almost
identical dressing for the Thorn Dun Larger or Landrail Dun. <span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This dressing uses gold Pearsall’s gossamer silk, substitutes a mixture of ginger antron and orange acrylic for orange mohair, and applies gold twist rather than tinsel.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Pritt’s attribution to Blacker’s Red is
presumably to the Red Palmer Fly that William Blacker includes in his </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Art of Angling</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> (1843). The color
scheme falls into the tawny category, essentially the same as Pritt’s Thornfly Dun, except that Blacker's fly is
dressed as a palmer:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“Hook ff.—Body, Red or
orange mohair, with gold twist or tinsel up the body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Legs, Two red hackles,
wound on from the tail up to the head, in rotation with the tinsel.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Blacker’s Red Palmer is the same as the Red
Palmer that John Kirkbride includes in his <i>Northern Angler</i> (1837), except that Kirkbride recommends occasionally using gold wire as a rib.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This dress of James Chetham's Thorn-Fly dresses a winged fly into a soft hackle, using dove covert for the light gray mallard's wing. It uses a mixture of black antron and raw Black Welsh Mountain wool for lamb’s wool.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In the latter, darker category of Thornfly
dressings is James Chetham’s Thorn-Fly. In his </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Angler’s Vade
Mecum </i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">(1681), Cheatham includes “</span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Another </i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Catalogue</span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">,
of Flies, practiced by a very good angler,</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">” in addition to the list he
reprints from </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">The Complete Angler</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> (1657,
1676), that includes the Thorn-fly as the first choice for May. Chetham’s
dressing calls for a “Dubbing of Black Lambs Wooll, and Dub’d with Black
Silk, Wings of a Mallards light Grey; Note that all the Feathers got from
Mallards for Wings, ought be got from a wild Mallard, and not from a tame
one.” Stephen Braithwaite maintained a manuscript fly list, which includes a
Thorn Fly dressed like Chetham’s, that Robert L. Smith reprints.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Chetham’s early dressing seems to provide a
precedent for the Alfred Ronalds’s Silverhorns a century and a half later.
Ronalds notes that the Silverhorns “is extremely abundant upon some waters, and
is well taken both by the Trout and Grayling until the end of August throughout
the day, and principally in showery weather. The figure represents the female.
The male has black horns.*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Body. Black ostrich herl
tied with black silk, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">and dressed off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Wings. Feather from a wing
of the cock blackbird.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Horns. Grey feather of the
mallard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">To make it buzz, the body is ribbed with silver twist
upon the black ostrich</span><span style="font-family: "courier";"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">herl, and a black hackle wrapped all down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">* There is a variety upon
some waters, which has a very shining highly polished jet-black wing</span>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800750418606011894noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1336153333127516543.post-73262919859943992162017-06-07T06:30:00.000-04:002017-11-21T21:14:04.957-05:00Stone Fly; Stone Flye or Flie; and, the Montana Stonefly<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">This dressing of the Stone Fly that Richard Bowlker describes in <i style="font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: start;">The Art of Angling</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: start;"> (1757) departs from the general rule of the blog and uses a size 10 hook instead of a size 14. It also substitutes a blend of beaver fur and golden stonefly antron dubbed on rib of silk buttonhole twist, which, when wet, would be an apt substitute for Bowlker's “body with dark brown mohair, mixed with dirty yellow.”</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Silk button hole twist – Belding-Corticelli 3715 bamboo, size D dubbed with an equal blend of beaver fur and golden
stonefly antron<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In a discussion of stoneflies in his <i>Fly
Fishing: The North Country Tradition </i>(1996), Leslie Magee suggests
that “of all the flies imitated by the flyfisher, the larger stoneflies are
the least familiar; few of the that I meet on the riverside have ever handled
a ‘creeper’ (the nymph or larvae) or an adult stonefly,” and that bait fishing with the stonefly was more common. While the
popularity of bait fishing with the stonefly has passed, Magee points out that it was still popular
in T. E. Pritt’s time, “when fishing the live creeper and the adult stonefly
cast upstream was all the rage on several North Country rivers.” </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Despite Magee's assertion that the popularity of bait fishing with stoneflies had waned by the early twentieth century, Harfield Edmonds and
Norman Lee devoted a chapter to it in their </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Brook and River Trouting</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> (1916); “20 years after the publication
of </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Brook and River Trouting</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">
upstream fishing with the creeper and live stonefly was virtually extinct”
due to developments in angling gear and fly fishing methods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Nevertheless, historical angling authors give
testament to Magee’s assertion that fishing stone flies as bait was a
centuries old practice, much like fishing nymphal and mature Green Drakes. John Kirkbride, for
instance, expresses this preference in
his <i>Northern Angler</i> (1837): the
Stone Fly, “on a hot day, is a most destructive bait for trout,” and it “is
seldom used as an artificial fly; for it is best to dab with it after it
takes wing. It is here called the May-fly.” Michael Theakston likewise notes in
his <i>List of Natural Flies</i> (1843), that
the stone fly, the “Imperial Empress of all trout flies,” is “in general fished
natural.” “After sunset she comes out,” he notes, “for her enjoyments are
chiefly in the dusk and twilight of night and early morn; the whole family
are then in motion—flying about—running among the stones, and paddling upon
the waters.” Theakston explains that, to fish the stone fly successfully, the angler must “move,
unseen, with easy motion up the stream, and dab the fly with precision on the
eddies behind stones, or other places of succour where the trout takes his
station; or let it glide free and natural down the current over his likely
haunts; never drag it against the stream (unnatural for any fly) or suffer it
to drown; but succour and recover it by easy lifts and gentle jerks, to keep
it on the water alive and dry, for a dead fly hanging at the hook like a
piece of wet moss, will not be taken on the top.” Theakston regards fishing
the stone fly as an artificial as “a true trier of skill, and probably the
best test of the general merits of the flyfisher. Each rustic craftsman along
the banks of the winding streams, where the true art and science of
flyfishing is best known and practised, greet with glee the presence of the
stone fly.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In the third edition of his <i>Modern Trout Fishing </i>(1950), some twenty-five years after bait
fishing the stonefly went extinct, in Magee’s account, Roger Woolley emphasized
how often the stone fly is fished as a natural, noting that “it is more used in
its natural state than as an artificial. It is called the Mayfly on the north
country rivers, where it hatches out in great numbers.” Woolley points out that “it is not always easy to
procure a sufficient number of the natural flies for a day’s fishing, and then
the artificial has to be resorted to, but the stone fly anglers prefer the
natural fly is procurable.” He goes on to list eighteen dressings for smaller
stoneflies, including five soft hackles like the Winter Brown that he attributes to the North Country tradition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Although Woolley’s dressings are almost evenly
split between winged and corresponding hackled versions, historical stone flies
patterns were most often winged dressings. John Jackson’s <i>Practical Fly-Fisher</i> (1854) includes a
winged stone fly, no. 32, the May-Fly, but notes that the fly is “generally
fished natural, being large enough to swim a good sized hook, or two smaller
ones tied double.” Theakston’s dressing is also winged, as is the Stone Fly
that William Blacker includes in his <i>Art
of Angling</i> (1843). Kirkbride, Alfred Ronalds in <i>The Fly-fisher’s Entomology</i> (1837), and John Turton’s <i>Angler’s Manual</i> (1836) provide
dressings that seem to derive from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century antecedents that John Waller Hills
describes in <i>A History of Fly Fishing for Trout</i> (1921).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Hills lists the Stonefly as one of the twelve
most important flies to anglers, giving a brief account of early dressings
from Dame Julianna Berner’s <i>A treatyse of fysshynge wyth an Angle</i> (1496) to Charles Cotton’s 1676 additions
to Izaak Walton’s <i>Compleat Angler </i>(1657). Hills points out that the
Stonefly “has changed neither in name nor in dressing. It is quite
unmistakeable, a fat, stupid, clumsy clown, better at running than flying.
The <i>Treatise</i> is as follows: ‘The
stone fly, the body of black wool and yellow under the wing and under the
tail, and the wings of the drake.’ Markham as usual makes the dressing more
definite: the yellow under wings and tail is to be made with yellow silk and
the wings are of a drake's down, not the quill feather. Cotton knew the fly
well and gives an excellent account of its history: he made the body of dun
bear's hair and brown and yellow camlet well mixed, making your fly more
yellow on the belly and towards the tail, two or three hairs of a black cat's
beard for tail, and long, very large wings of grey mallard. Though we use different
furs from Cotton, his body survives unchanged in essence: but a hen
pheasant's quill feather makes a truer wing than light mallard, and we like
to add a hackle, either blue dun or greenish. But the changes are immaterial.”
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Part of the “excellent account” that Hills
attributes to Cotton includes a description of the Stone-Flies’ unique manner
of hatching and eagerness of the trout to feed on them: “This same Stone-Flie
has not the patience to continue in his Crust, or Husk till his wings be full
grown, but so soon as ever they begin to put out, that he feels himself
strong (at which time we call him a Jack) squeezes himself out of Prison, and
crawls to the top of some stone, where he can find a chink that will receive
him, or can creep betwixt two stones, the one lying hollow upon the other
(which, by the way, we also lay so purposely to find them) he there lurks
tills his wings be full grown, and there is your only place to find him (and
from thence doubtless he derives his name) though, for want of convenience,
he will make shift with the hollow of a Bank, or any other place where the
wind cannot come to fetch him off.” Cotton notes that anglers often “dape or
dibble” the natural Stone-Flie, “as with the [Green] Drake” and that fishing
the fly is “much better toward 8, 9, 10 or eleven of the clock, at which time
also the best fish rise, and the latter the better, provided you can see your
Flie, and when you cannot, a made Flie will murder.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In his <i>Fly Fisher’s Guide </i>(1816), George Bainbridge nods toward three traditions of fishing the stone fly. Not only is it “a deadly bait, used in the natural state,” but it is dressed after the fashion of Cotton's and Berners' precedent, winged and with a bear fur body. Brainbridge notes that it is also dressed as a hackled pattern, with “a long-fibred grizzled hackle from a cock’s back, without wings.” This latter dressing specifically recalls the Stone Flies of Richard Bowlker and his son Charles. Richard Bowlker provides a simple, soft hackle dressing for the Stone Fly in his <i>Art of Flyfishing</i> (1757). He describes the insect as “a large four-winged fly; bred from an insect in the water, called the water cricket; to be found in stony, gravelly brooks, or rivers; his belly is of a dirty yellow, his wings of a fine blue color, full of small veins, so that he is best made with a fine blue grizzle cock’s hackle; the body with dark brown mohair mixed with a dirty yellow.” Charles Bowlker offers a similar dressing in his 1776 edition, though its description reads more like a palmer: “This fly is made of the brown feather of a hen. His belly is of a dirty yellow and his back of the dark brown. His body is made of a yellow or brown spaniel’s hair, or Mohair, with the grizzled hackle of a cock around it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Stonefly dressings are the
stock-in-trade of modern American anglers, though they are often involved dressings.
A notable exception is Charles Brooks' Montana Stonefly nymph. Brooks famously
dressed heavily-weighted nymphal patterns “in the round” for fishing deep,
boulder-studded pocket water of the western trout streams he favored—much
like the water Theakston and the Bowlkers reference—and he described his
methods of fishing and dressing them in</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Nymph
Fishing for Larger Trout</i><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">(1976).
Though it is a bit of a stretch, many, such as his Montana Stone Fly, are
essentially</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">soft
hackles or flymphs</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, not far removed in form the <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2015/11/hare-ear-flymph-hare-ear.html">Hare's Ear Flymph</a> that Dave Hughes describes in <i>Wet Flies</i> (1995)</span>.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> This fly recalls the Bowlkers own dressing, though it
is unlikely Brooks had access to their books.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Brooks dressed his Montana Stone on
long, heavy wire hooks in sizes 4 to 8 and weighted them heavily in order to
represent the “</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Pteronarcys</i><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">genus
of stoneflies, especially</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">P.
californica,</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">” also known as the Giant Salmon Fly Nymph, a must different
stone fly than the one Alfred Ronalds describes: a fly hatching from</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">the beginning of April until the end of May,</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">”</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> of the “</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Order, Neuroptera.
Family,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Perlidœ. Genus, Perla.
Species, Bicaudata.</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">” Ronalds' stonefly is likely much more closely
related to the fly Ernest Schwiebert describes in</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Nymphs</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> (1973) as</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Perla Capitata</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">, the Great
Stonefly Nymph, Art Flick's Stonefly Creeper. Brooks’ Montana Stone is
somewhat more complicated to dress than the Bowlkers:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“<i>Tail</i>: Six fibers of raven or crow primary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Rib</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">: Copper wire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Body</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">: Black fuzzy yarn, four strand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Hackle</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">: One grizzly saddle and one grizzly dyed dark brown. Strip
hackles off lower hackles before tying in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Gills</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">: Light gray or white ostrich herls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Thread</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">: Black nymo 3/0.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Brooks directs fly tiers to: “Tie in
thread at front, wind to bend. Lacquer shank. Tie in tail fibers and split to
form forked tail, three fibers per side. Tie in ribbing and yarn. Wind thread
forward, half hitch twice, and break off. Lacquer shank again. Wind yarn to
eye, back to bend, forward to eye and back to base of thorax. Tie off, tying
in thread at same time. Wind rib and tie off. Tie in one strand of ostrich
herl, and both hackles by the butts. Strip fibers off lower side of both
hackles. Wind two separated turns of hackle, one at the base of the thorax
and another halfway between there and the eye. Both colors of hackle should
lie one against the other. Tie off. Wind ostrich herl forward at the base of
the hackles, tie off. Spiral thread forward and finish head large and lacquer
well.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Dark Snipe and Green appears on two lists
that Robert Lakeland includes in his <i>Teesdale Angler</i> (1858),
the “List of Hackle Flies from February to November” and the “List of Hackles
and Silks to Suit (Good Killers).” In both lists, the Dark Snipe and Green is
dressed for August, and the name provides the directions for dressing the fly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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While it falls outside the Anglo-American province of this blog, the medieval
Austrian </span><a href="http://www.amff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Breviary.pdf"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Haslinger Breviary
Fishing Tract</span></i></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> (c. 1440) lists
a fly that seems at least distantly related to the Dark Snipe and Green of Lakeland's
lists, although the <i>Tract</i> uses a dingy-olive woodpecker hackle rather than the muddy-dun tones of snipe. Richard C. Hoffman transcribes this dressing as a fly for November or
“other autumn” in Richard C. Hoffman's translation of the <i>Breviary</i>.
He transcribes the dressing or dressings thus: “<i>und nym gruenspachen federn und wint grúen und gelib darunder</i>,”
which he translates as “and take green woodpecker feathers and wind green and
yellow [silk] under that.” He notes that the green woodpecker is “native
across temperate Europe” and that it “has dull olive green upper parts and
pale gray-green beneath.” The simple breaks, <i>und</i> or
and, between flies on the list and between materials for dressing
flies suggests two possible ways of dressing the flies. Either these hackled
flies are dressed with bodies from two silks—the fly would have a woodpecker
hackle and body of green and yellow silk wound like the Sylvester Lister's March Brown or T. E. Pritt's Little Dark Watchet—or with single silk bodies that share a common
hackle—a woodpecker hackle with a body of green silk or, alternately, a
woodpecker hackle with a body of yellow silk. The author's economy of
language suggests the latter reading is more accurate, that the dressings
conflate different silk bodies that can be dressed from the same bird's hackles, like William Brumfitt's Dark Snipe and Orange or Dark Snipe and Purple.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This dressing substitutes a barred American woodcock shoulder feather for the sand-piper covert that John Kirkbride recommends.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Barred American woodcock shoulder feather<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">John Kirkbride listed the Sand-Piper Hackle in
his <i>Northern Angler</i> (1837), noting
that “some of our old sportsman are very partial to this fly. They use it in
the spring when the water is clearing off. Let the body be of orange-silk,
ribbed with a fine peacock harle, and tipt with gold; take a small specked
feather from the outside of the wing of a sand-piper for hackle—hook, no. 8.”
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Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800750418606011894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1336153333127516543.post-18327011373036613922017-04-05T06:30:00.001-04:002018-06-25T13:24:30.078-04:00Black with Red<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This dressing uses black antron for the thorax rather than the “black down,” presumably felted rabbit fur from a hat, in the original dressing. It also substitutes crow shoulder for black hen neck.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">John Turton lists the Black with Red as a hackle
for “all the season,” no. 28 the second list he includes in <i>The Angler’s Manual</i> (1836). He dresses
it “with red silk: wing, black hen’s feather from neck; body, black silk at
tail, and black down close under wing.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Black down is a material Turton recommended that every fly tier keep in a “dubbing
or down book,” which “must be made of a few leaves of parchment sewed
separately to the outside leaves, to give room to shut when the downs are put
in, which must be done by cutting them across with small pointed scissors,
about a quarter of an inch from each other; then the pieces through it;
this will hold them fast and the leaves maybe turned over as to find
any color wanted. Small pockets must be made at each end” for the furs with “no
skin attached to them.” When Turton assigns “black down” to a dressing, he is
apparently referring to the black down he would include in a down book, “from
the best stuff hats,” rather than a down feather or after shaft.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The combination of red thread, a black body, and
black hackle recalls the James Leisenring’s dressing of the <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2014/06/black-gnat.html">Black Gnat</a> in <i>The Art of Tying the Wet Fly and Fishing
the Flymph</i> (1941).<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In his treatment of Hills’s <i>A Summer on the Test</i> (1924) in <i>Two Centuries of Soft-Hackled Flies </i>(2004), Nemes cites Hills’s passing comment on the pattern: “One of the softest, most compressible, patterns is the partridge hackle, and, whether this be the reason or not, I consider it the best sunk fly on the Test. Its body, of silk, can be of many colours. I find the old Cumberland pattern, the orange partridge, best, and next to that the red.” By Nemes's account, anglers on the Test seemingly drew little distinction between the red and orange bodies, although the <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2014/06/orange-partridge.html">Partridge and Orange</a> has endured as a more distinct, popular fly for generations of anglers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In <i>The
Soft-Hackled Fly Addict</i> (1981), Sylvester Nemes names the Cumberland, a
fly which John Waller Hills seemingly only mentions in passing. Nemes notes
that “Hills believed this fly to be the most effective sunk fly on the Test,
particularly on hot days and in slow water,” and he provides this dressing
for Hills’s fly:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Body:</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> Red or orange silk floss<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Hackle:</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> Medium partridge <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Rib:</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> Narrow gold wire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Dressed with a rib, the Cumberland becomes the
Orange Partridge that Harfield Norman and Edmond Lee list in their </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Brook and River Trouting</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> (1916). In
his </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">River Keeper</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> (1934), which
Nemes also notes, Hills recalls a similar, ribbed pattern favored by the
riverkeeper William Lunn, the </span><a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2013/10/little-red-partridge-hackle.html" style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Red Partridge Hackle</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In list of his thirty North Country flies,
included at the head of <i>Fly Fishing:
The North Country Tradition</i> (1994), Leslie Magee attributes the dressing,
the Crimson Partridge, to an unnamed 1887 publication by James Blades. Robert
L. Smith includes the Crimson Partridge, one of James Blades’ patterns “taken
from T K Wilson’s angling articles in the <i>Dalesman</i>
magazine of 1949,” in an appendix at the end of his </span><a href="http://www.anglebooks.com/catalog/product/view/id/21389/s/the-north-country-fly-yorkshire-s-soft-hackle-tradition-by-robert-l-smith/" style="font-family: georgia, serif;">The North Country Fly: Yorkshire’s Soft Hackle Tradition (2015)</a>.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> He additionally notes that the Crimson Partridge is a
“splendid fly in a full brown water from the beginning of the season to the
end.” Many of the manuscript and publications that Smith includes list the fly less as a dressing for hot days and slow water, like Hills, and more of a dressing for discolored water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Dave Hughes includes the Gray Hen Hackle Wet in
the color plates that accompany the first edition of his <i>Wet Flies</i> (1995). To dress the fly, Hughes recommends:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“Hook: 2x stout, size
10-16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Thread: Gray 6/0 or 8/0
nylon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Hackle: Grizzle hen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Body: Muskrat fur
dubbing.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Charles Brooks dressed a similar fly, the Grey
Nymph, with a tail. He describes in the list of patterns he includes at the
end of <i>Nymph Fishing for Larger Trout</i>
(1976):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“<i>Tail</i>: Badger hair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Body</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">: Neutral gray fur; muskrat or similar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Hackle</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">: Soft gray grizzly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Thread</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">: Black Nymo.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The image in the color plates that precede the
list depict a full-bodied, heavily-tail and –hackled Grey Nymph. Brooks notes
that it is a “very simple but effective fly.” He might have added that it has
likely been around for a long time, as evidence by other shaggy, modern patterns like <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2015/12/pat-nymph.html">Pat's Nymph</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOOZZF6Lo3_NuZZ32ieQg7vfc-VMoI_yfQzKgLzGe8Yubv41EEGWMCNWfwWCG-2DF-ZQz9SOXEBCC4YiHShyphenhyphenES9VYsYNl3Q8pwPAktvjiDBvOxbl-krxMqutcdGcB9zMW-Kd8azP02-zw/s1600/99.+Olive+Nymph%252C+No.+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOOZZF6Lo3_NuZZ32ieQg7vfc-VMoI_yfQzKgLzGe8Yubv41EEGWMCNWfwWCG-2DF-ZQz9SOXEBCC4YiHShyphenhyphenES9VYsYNl3Q8pwPAktvjiDBvOxbl-krxMqutcdGcB9zMW-Kd8azP02-zw/s320/99.+Olive+Nymph%252C+No.+1.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This dressing represents Olive Nymph No. 1 in W. H. Lawrie’s list, and it follows Sylvester Nemes’ suggestion of substituting muskrat fur for blue cat fur in the body. It also assigns antron for the thorax.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Hook:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">14-16<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Thread:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Yellow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Tail:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Olive hackle fibers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Rib:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Small gold wire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Abdomen:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Yellow tying thread dubbed sparsely with muskrat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Thorax:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Light olive antron<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Hackle:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Furnace hen’s hackle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In <i>Two Centuries of the Soft-Hackled Fly</i> (2005),
Sylvester Nemes includes dressings from W. H. Lawrie’s <i>The Book of
the Rough Stream Nymph</i> (1947). He notes that Lawrie includes “only
fourteen patterns in the book (I had the same number of soft-hackled flies in
my first book), nine of which represent nymphs and five of which represent
hatching duns or, to use the modern name, emergers.” Nemes notes that he has
“‘modernized’ the patterns whenever necessary,” substituting “some dubbings
and hackles for acid-dyed furs and feathers.” Nemes's substitutions are in
brackets below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Lawrie dressed Olive Nymphs thus:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“(1) Olive Nymph. Hook
No. 14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Hackle: Furnace hackle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Body: Yellow tying silk
waxed with brown cobbler’s wax, and dubbed lightly with blue cat fur
[muskrat], the whole ribbed with fine gold wire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Whisks: Three strands of
live hen feather fibres.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Thorax: Light olive.
[This pattern is simply a variant of the wet <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2014/01/greenwells-glory.html">Greenwell’s
Glory</a>.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">(2) Olive Nymph. Hook
No. 14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Hackle: Dark blue hen
hackle dyed a deep olive shade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Body: Dark hare-lug
[hare’s ear] and muskrat fur spun on primrose tying silk, ribbed with fine
gold wire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Whisks: Three fibres of
soft rust hen feather.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Thorax: Dark muskrat
spun onto tying silk below hackle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">(3) Olive Nymph. Hook
No. 14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Hackle: Dark blue hen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Body: Olive dyed peacock
quill. [Or olive thread or floss.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Whisks: Three strands of
dark blue hen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Thorax: Dark muskrat.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Lawrie's dressings provide variations on
dressings of Olive nymphs and soft hackles such as the <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2016/06/blue-dun.html">Blue
Dun</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Nemes's occasional modernization might result in
similar effects, but the materials can be quite different. Lawrie listed the
first dressing for his Olive Nymph in <i>The
Book of the Rough Stream Nymph</i> (1947) and reprinted it in <i>Scottish Trout Flies</i> (1966):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“1. Hackle: Furnace hen hackle, two turns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Body: Yellow tying silk waxed with cobblers wax,
and ribbed with fine gold wire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Thorax: Blue cat’s fur dyed in picric acid and spun
on to tying-silk immediate below the hackle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Whisks: Three short strands blue hen feather,
undyed or dyed olive in picric acid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">2. Hackle: Dark blue dun dyed a deep olive shade, two
turns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Body: Dark hare-lug fur spun on primrose
tying-silk and ribbed with find gold wire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Thorax: Dark blue cat’s fur spun on to tying-silk
immediately below the hackle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">3. Hackle: Dark blue hen—very soft—two turns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Body: Strip of quill from wing-feather of
wood-pigeon dyed in picric acid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Thorax: Dark blue cat’s fur spun on to tying-silk below
hackle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Whisks: Three strands fibre of the dark blue hen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">All the above are
dressed on long-shank No. 14 square-bend hooks.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800750418606011894noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1336153333127516543.post-5478179234755189182017-02-08T06:30:00.000-05:002018-06-25T13:26:17.324-04:00Smoky Mountain Blackbird; Crow Fly; or, Black Palmer<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5kfdDei-4HHitWVff6xURX0HvzkCzN5WyNQskCU_MP51CkPvXxeMN5hhm0gfyS6KJa8oiBqoUQM7xVK9VICEr4ZtFxSH9QBtaih_qEksqcRiHbQczGC-fKC6Xy1VSSuWN0A_y89j3mxQ/s1600/97.+Smoky+Mountain+Blackbird.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5kfdDei-4HHitWVff6xURX0HvzkCzN5WyNQskCU_MP51CkPvXxeMN5hhm0gfyS6KJa8oiBqoUQM7xVK9VICEr4ZtFxSH9QBtaih_qEksqcRiHbQczGC-fKC6Xy1VSSuWN0A_y89j3mxQ/s320/97.+Smoky+Mountain+Blackbird.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This dressing of the Smoky Mountain Blackbird is unweighted and uses the 2x dry fly hook in size 14 that other flies in this blog use. Also, following an almost identical dressing by Roger Lowe, the Crow Fly, it uses a starling primary for the palmer.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Hook:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">4-10<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Thread:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Black<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Tail:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 6.25in;" valign="top" width="600"><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Starling primary barbules, tied the length of
the hook shank<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Body:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 6.25in;" valign="top" width="600"><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Peacock herl<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Hackle:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 6.25in;" valign="top" width="600"><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Split starling primary<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.55pt;" valign="top" width="18"><div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">L. J. DeCuir includes the Smoky Mountain Blackbird
in his <i>Southeastern Flies</i> (2001),
noting the similarities between it and the better known <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2015/01/yaller-hammer-yallerhammer-or-yellow.html">Yallerhammer</a>—it uses
a peacock herl body and “utilizes the split wing feather of a bird.” DeCuir
gives this dressing for the fly:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“<i>Hook</i>: Mustad 9672, TMC 5263 or 3x or 4x Streamer Hook #4-10<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Thread</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">: Black<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Tail</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">: Barbules from the wing feather of a blackbird<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Palmered Rib</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">: Split wing feather of a blackbird<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Body</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">: Peacock herl”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">While the Smoky Mountain Blackbird most
resembles DeCuir’s tailless dressing of the Yallerhammer, “it can also be
fished like a Woolly Bugger,” even though, as DeCuir notes, it is “usually
fished in the mountains of the Southeast like most heavily weighted nymphs.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The “blackbird” of DeCuir’s Smoky Mountain
Blackbird does not specify a species like the distinctive Yallerhammer,
despite their similarities, and there are nearly thirty species of blackbird
in the Americas. Roger Lowe gives an almost identical dressing in his <i>Fly Pattern Guide to the Great Smoky
Mountains</i> (2001), which he calls Crow Fly. He notes that it is “tied
similar to the Yellow Hammer but with a Crow feather; imitates the molting
stonefly.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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peacock herl<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Hackle: Biot quill
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Similar tailless dressings exist, most often
listed as a Black Palmer. John Turton’s includes a Black Palmer Fly in his <i>Angler’s Manual</i> (1836) for fishing in
the latter part of the season, from “July to September.” He dresses it “with
dark orange silk; wing, black hen’s hackle feather; body, copper-coloured
peacock’s feather; after rains, ribbed with silver twist.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Roger Woolley includes a Black Palmer in a
later edition of <i>Modern Trout Flies</i>
(1950) that does not list a thread color, as is usually the case with the
flies on Woolley’s list, but includes the materials for dressing Turton’s
“after rains” Black Palmer Fly, with a rib of silver wire rather than silver
twist. It could easily be dressed with the dark orange thread Turton gives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The name Black Palmer covers a variety of
dressings, the black referring either to the hackle, as in Turton’s dressing,
or the body, like the Black Palmers of Alfred Ronalds’ and Charles Bowlker’s.
Both Ronald’s and Bowlker’s dressings, in <i>The
Fly-Fisher’s Entomology</i> (1836) and <i>The
Art of Angling</i> (1774) respectively, utilize a black ostrich body, silver
twist, and either a black or red cock’s hackle palmer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">John Jackson’s <i>Practical Fly Fisher</i> (1853) includes a dressing for the black
palmer that is much more variable (and includes a variation that is very
similar to the Yallerhammer): <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“<i>Body</i>.—Dark Peacock’s, or Ostrich’s herl, ribbed with gold tinsel
and green silk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Black, brown, or dark
red Cock’s hackle over all.”<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This spider is dressed essentially as a thread-bodied, soft hackle palmer, a method that results in a fundamentally more vulnerable fly than the ones W. C. Stewart preferred to fish. It uses the starling substitute that Stewart suggests. It would best be dressed on a shorter shank that the dry fly hook used to regularize the blog's dressing. suggests..</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">It would be best tied on a
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">W. C. Stewart </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Practical Angler </i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">(1857)
made famous the spider style of dressing soft hackles with three specific
dressings, the <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2013/06/black-spider.html">Black Spider</a>, the <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2016/01/red-spider.html">Red Spider</a>, and the Dun Spider. He states
that “killing spiders may be made of all the feathers we have mentioned
[“starling, landrail, dotterel, mavis, grey plover, golden plover, partridge,
and grouse”], since “their superiority consists in their much greater resemblance
to the legs of an insect, and their extreme softness. So soft are they, that
when a spider is made of one of them and placed in the water, the least
motion will agitate and impart a singularly life-like appearance to it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The Dun Spider “should be made of the small
soft dun or ash-coloured feather, taken from the outside of the wing of the
<a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2014/09/dotterel-in-orange-and-yellow.html">dotterel</a>. This bird is unfortunately very scarce ; but a small feather may be
taken from the inside of the wing of the starling, which will make an
excellent substitute.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Stewart notes that the “only objection to
spiders is, that the feathers are so soft that the trout's teeth break them
off, and after catching a dozen or two of trout, little is left of them but
the bare dressing, rendering it necessary for the angler to change them; and
if the trout are taking readily, this has to be repeated two or three times a
day.” The life-like effect and overall effectiveness of the dressings,
however, outweighs this objection. His method of dressing the fly strengthens
the hackle stem and binds the hackle fibers in buggy positions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In his <i>Wet
Flies</i> (1995), Dave Hughes suggests dressing Stewart’s spiders by winding
tying thread from the eye of the hook halfway down the shank, tying the base
of the hackle in from the middle of the shank to the eye, and then winding
the tying thread back to the halfway point on the shank. To dress the fly,
Hughes directs the fly tier to “take three to five evenly spaced turns of the
hackle back to the midpoint of the hook. Catch the hackle tip with three
turns of thread,” and he recommends breaking the tip off rather than clipping
it with scissors. To finish the fly, Hughes gives another step: “Work your
thread forward through the hackle to the hook eye. Wobble the thread back and
forth as you go forward, to avoid matting down any hackle. This step is
critical; without it, the fragile hackle stem will break and unwind on the
first fish you catch.” The fly is finished at the eye of the hook. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">This dressing follows Roger
Woolley’s suggestion that Stewart’s spiders might be dressed as hackle palmers:
“just a soft hackle taken half-way down the hook, palmerwise, no body as in the
usual type of fly, half the hook left bare," but uses the end of the tying thread as a rib, somewhat in the manner of Hughes.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This dressing uses a genetic furnace saddle hackle for the palmer and does not twist the hackle on the tying silk before palmering it forward, as James Chetham recommends.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In his <i>Angler’s Vade Mecum</i> (1681),
James Chetham reprints the list of flies that Charles Cotton appends to Izaak
Walton’s <i>Compleat Angler</i> in 1676. Chetham names the fly and
lists the Purple Gold Hackle as No. 4 on his list for June, a dressing “made with a Purple Body, Gold twist over that,
all whip'd about with a Red Capons Feather." A fly dressed with a hackle
“whip'd about” the body is, for Chetham, “a Palmer-fly” that “is made of a
Capon, or Cock's Hackle, twirled on Silk, and warp'd about the Hook, and
either with, or without any Wings, and sometimes a little dubbing under the Hackle.”
Dressed without the rib, the fly is the Purple Hackle, No. 3 on
Chetham's and Cotton's list for June. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">John Kirkbride includes the directions for a
similar Purple Palmer in his <i>Northern Angler</i> (1837) that
resembles the essentials of Cotton an Chetham's dressing: "This palmer
is made of purple floss-silk, tipt at the tail with gold, or not, and two
fine black hackles fun round the head. It must be made very small."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This dressing substitutes purple angora goat for purple mohair and uses a sparse furnace Indian dry fly hackle for the palmer.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In his </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Angler’s
Manual</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> (1836), John Turton lists the Purple Gold Palmer for June: “made
with purple silk: wing, a red cock’s hackle feather; body, purple mohair,
ribbed with gold twist.” He recommends the fly because it “takes large fish in rough streams and dark
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This dressing is an unweighted composite of primarily early directions for dressing the fly with a few of the later modifications, and in keeping with the standard for hook size and representation on the blog, it uses a size 14 dry fly hook rather than the nymph hook Whitlock prescribes. It largely follows Dave Whitlock’s “<i>Standard</i> Red Fox Squirrel-Hair Nymph” recipe from the June 1984 issue of <i>Fly Fisherman</i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> magazine, using natural, prepackaged belly fibers for the abdomen and unblended back fur taken from a road-kill fox squirrel as the thorax. It adds the hackling and tailing that Whitlock suggests in the book chapter on nymphing. </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Including the Red Fox Squirrel Nymph as soft
hackle might be criticized as taking too much liberty with the blog
definition of the style, as in the case of the northeastern <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-breadcrust-2-versions.html">Breadcrust</a>, the
ubiquitous <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2014/01/greenwells-glory.html">Greenwell’s Glory</a>, or the Tup’s Nymph (or most other patterns dressed by G. E. M. Skues). Nevertheless, it an
impressionistic pattern and lends itself to dressing in many familiar styles.
Pinpointing the inception of one of Dave Whitlock’s most iconic flies is a
task likely best left to Whitlock himself. Since tracking down every
reference to the fly would be even harder, a sample of Whitlock’s own words
on the pattern must suffice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">An early publication that includes the Red Fox
Squirrel Nymph was <i>The Masters on the
Nymph </i>(1979), to which Whitlock contributed a chapter 7, “Nymphing
Tackle.” The first of the four “favorite nymph patterns” he includes is the
Red Fox Squirrel Nymph,” which he describes as his “favorite all-purpose
nymph, as versatile and effective for a nymph as the Adams is for a dry fly.
It works as well where mayflies, stone flies, caddis pupae, and scuds of similar
colors exist, and where there are no nymphs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Hook: Mustad 9671, sizes 4-18<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Body weight: 6 to 10 wraps of lead wire at thorax<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Thread: Black<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Tail: Sparse tuft of red-fox squirrel back hair,
including both guard and underfur ½ length of hook shank<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Rib: Small oval tinsel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Abdomen: Red-fox squirrel
belly fur<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Thorax: Red-fox squirrel back fur (with guard and
underfur included)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Wing case: Dark-brown swiss straw or turkey tail<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Legs: Either guard hairs of red-fox squirrel
back or one turn of dark partridge hackle”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">He also cited it as the nymph he used in his
nymphing system in a pair of articles in <i>Fly
Fisherman</i> magazine from 1983, but did not give it an explicit treatment
of the fly itself until a June 1984 article entitled “Red Fox-Squirrel-Hair
Nymph.” In this article, he describes how to trim a red squirrel hide to preserve the scarce belly fur—split the
skin down the back when dressing the body—and how to sort the fur into like
colors. (He also notes that a shaved, tanned red fox squirrel skin can
repurposed into buckskin nymphs. Very little of the animal goes to waste for
the savvy, creative fly tier.) More
importantly, he discusses the reasons for the fly’s success. Rather than
clinging to a narrow representational niche, the Red Fox Squirrel Nymph aims
for impressionistic representation and is, as a result, characteristically
versatile. By adjusting the length and thickness of the abdomen, and thorax,
as well as the sparseness and length of the hackle, the Red Fox Squirrel
Nymph could give the impression of a broad array of insects. In this article,
he gives a dressing for “Dave Whitlock’s <i>Standard</i>
Red Fox Squirrel-Hair Nymph” that looks much more like a soft hackle:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“HOOK: Mustad 9671 or Tiemco Nymph Hook, #2 to
#18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">THREAD: Black or dark
brown nylon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">CEMENT: Dave’s
Flexament.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">WEIGHT: Lead or copper
wire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">ABDOMEN: Belly fur from
red fox squirrel skin, may be blended with synthetic sparkle dubbing. Abdomen
should be ½ to 2/3 of the overall body length.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">THORAX: Back fur from
red fox squirrel skin, may be blended with synthetic sparkle dubbing. Thorax
should be ½ to 1/3 of the overall body length.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">RIB Gold wire or oval
tinsel.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In his <i>Guide
to Aquatic Trout Foods</i> (1982), Whitlock’s fly boxes illustrate this
versatility: it shows up, for instance, in his “Box No. 1: General Utility
Box” at the head of the list in sizes 6-16, as well as “Box No. 4:
Terrestrials and Summer Midges” in sizes 16 and 18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Whitlock’s prolific writing has continued to describe the
efficacy of the Red Fox Squirrel Nymph. He contributed a short article on the
pattern in the September/October 2010 issue of <i>Eastern
Fly Fishing</i> that reflects many of the modern, commercial interventions in
fly dressing that have risen alongside media popularization of the sport,
especially in print but also in film. This version updates the materials that
Whitlock originally posted for the do-it-yourself fly tier of the late seventies
and early eighties. In their blend of synthetic and natural fibers, these
newer, branded materials regularize the color and consistency of the abdomen,
thorax, and hackling, and they incorporate colors and sparkle that are more
likely to attract a trout’s attention, particularly in off-color water. Both
the original and contemporary versions have a place in the angler’s fly box. This
Red Fox Squirrel Nymph uses:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“<b>Hook:</b> TMC 5262, size 2-20<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Thread:</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> Orange Wapsi Ultra Thread 70<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Weight:</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> Lead Wire the diameter of the hook wire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Cements:</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> Zap-a-Gap and Dave’s Flexament<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Tail:</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> Back hair of red fox squirrel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Rib:</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> Small or medium gold oval tinsel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Abdomen:</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> 50-50 blend of red fox squirrel belly hair and similar
colors of Antron and SLF or No. 2 (red fox squirrel abdomen) Wapsi Dave
Whitlock Plus SLF dubbing blend<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Thorax:</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> 50-50 blend of red fox squirrel back hair blended and
hare’s ear Antron and SLF or No. 1 (red fox squirrel thorax) Wapsi Dave
Whitlock Plus SLF dubbing blend<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Legs:</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> Dark ginger Metz hen back feather for hook sizes 2-12; for
smaller hooks, pick out the dubbing guard hairs for legs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Head:</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> Orange thread or gold bead.”<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the tail<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">While it might have been intended as a
separate dressing for an olive mayfly like the <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2016/06/blue-dun.html">Blue Dun</a>, James Leisenring
includes the Blue Dun Hackle separately from the <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2014/10/old-blue-dun.html">Old Blue Dun</a> in his <i>Art of Tying the Wet Fly & Fishing the
Flymph</i> (1941). He dressed is with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“HOOK 12, 13, 14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">SILK Primrose yellow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">HACKLE Light-blue-dun hen hackle of good quality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">TAIL Two or three
blue-dun fibers optional.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">RIB Very narrow flat gold tinsel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">BODY Mole fur spun on primrose-yellow silk, a
little of the silk exposed at the tail.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Dave Hughes gives a dressing for similar fly,
the Blue Dun Wingless, in his <i>Wet Flies</i>
(1995 and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0811716244/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687622&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0811718689&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=2QYHTE3KXDBCNZSAX3F8">2015</a>) and the updated second edition, which he configures like his <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2015/11/hare-ear-flymph-hare-ear.html">Hare’s Ear Flymph</a>, in the <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-modus-operandi-and-very-necessary.html">flymph</a> style he
takes from Leisenring and James Hidy. He dresses the Blue Dun Wingless with: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“Hook: 1x fine or 2x
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Thread: Yellow
Pearsall’s Gossamer silk or 6/0 or 8/0 nylon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Hackle: Medium blue
dun hen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Tails: Medium blue dun
hen hackle fibers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Rib: Narrow Mylar
tinsel, silver.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Body: Muskrat belly
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This dressing used yellow thread and a found heron’s herl primary that the dressing prescribes as a body variation. It also leaves off the wings in favor of a hackled dressing comparable to Leisenring’s.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Leisenring’s dressing seems to be based on the Blue Dun that G. E. M. Skues includes in </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> (1910).
Skues’s Blue Dun is dressed with:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“<i>Wings</i>: Snipe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Body</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">: Water-rat on primrose or yellow tying silk. Vary body by
dressing with undyed heron’s herl from the wing, and ribbing with find gold
or medium silver wire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Legs</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">: Medium blue hen.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Exclusive of the ever-popular peacock herl, herl-bodied dressings are rather
rare in soft hackle literature, although they are common in Skues’ own nymphal
dressings. Traditional soft hackles tend to opt for simple silk-bodied or
dubbed fur dressings. Notable exceptions include Leisenring’s <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2014/06/black-gnat.html">Black Gnat</a>
(dressed without the optional wings), the Old Master and Little Black that T.
E. Pritt includes in <i>North-Country
Flies </i>(1886), and especially Sylvester Nemes’ <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2014/05/pheasant-tail.html">Pheasant Tail</a> from his <i>Soft-Hackled Fly </i>(1975).<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">L. J. DeCuir lists the Red Ass as the Arkansas
Red Butt in his <i>Southeastern Flies</i>
(2000), noting that “peacock herl flies have always been good producers on the
mountain streams of the Southeast and this one is no exception. This pattern
is from Jerry Cobb. He’s had great success with it on the streams in the
higher elevations in the Smokies as well as the Northern Arkansas trout
streams.” DeCuir dressed it as a heavily hackled wet fly:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“Hook</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">: Mustad 3906, TMC 3976 #8-16<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Thread</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">: Red<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Tag</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">: Red thread<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Body</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">: Peacock herl<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Hackle</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">: Partridge tied as a wet fly collar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Head</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">: Red thread built up fairly heavily”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">DeCuir points out that the Arkansas Red Butt
works equally well on trout in Southern Appalachian mountains or the tailraces of east Tennessee as it does on
panfish and bass in farm ponds and warm water impoundments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Cobb’s combination of peacock herl, red
thread, and a black and white barred hackling recalls dressings like the <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2014/12/gray-hackle-peacock-zulu-orl-fly-and.html">Gray Hackle Peacock</a> and its precedents; dressed without a tip, the fly bears a strong resemblance to Sylvester Neme's <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2013/12/syls-nymph.html">Syl's Nymph</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800750418606011894noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1336153333127516543.post-70474558597329688932016-11-16T06:30:00.001-05:002018-06-25T13:27:02.527-04:00Black and Blae<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This version is dressed with black tying thread and a blue rib to emphasize the attributes of the fly’s name. It substitutes black plastic canvas yarn for dog's fur. The blue thread rib is taken from a spool and not teased or stripped from "some fair damsel's gown.". </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Robert L. Smith includes fly list taken from Thomas
Charleton’s poem <i>The Art of Fishing</i>
(1819) in his <a href="http://www.anglebooks.com/the-north-country-fly-yorkshire-s-soft-hackle-tradition-by-robert-l-smith.html">The North Country Fly: The Soft Hackle Tradition (2015)</a>. Smith notes that Charleton's poem "offers further evidence of the ubiquitous use of the soft-hackled fly in the northern counties of England during the late 19th century." A rather unique fornat for an angling text, Charleton's poem draws on an earlier precedent that Smith locates in Thomas Scott'smid eighteenth-century poem <i>The Anglers </i>and "entwined the locally used fly patterns of Northumberland into his lengthy poem on the joys of angling in northern rivers."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Charleton recommends fishing the Black and Blae when "March comes in." The dressing is </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“</span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Dubb’d with the fur of black dog’s skin,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">For wings snipe hackles far excel,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Blue silk its rib can mimic well,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">From some fair damsel’s gown.</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800750418606011894noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1336153333127516543.post-69181236267756869842016-11-02T06:30:00.000-04:002018-06-25T13:27:09.938-04:00Red Shiner Fly<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This dressing substitutes American woodcock covert for British woodcock and the same peacock herl for the rib as the head. </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Burnt orange Madeira Classic Color rayon
embroidery thread, 1021<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">John Turton describes the Red Shiner Fly as
no. 31 in his <i>Angler’s Manual</i>
(1836). He notes that it is "For April: made with orange silk: wing, red
woodcock’s feather from butt end of wing; body, light bright orange silk,
ribbed with green peacock’s feather; and peacock's head." He also notes that the fly is a " good killer after rains." <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Turton also describes variant dressings: "It changes these colours: - if there be bright days, the red owl'sfeather, from butt end up wing, is used for wings; if a dark day, the brown owl's feather must be used from outside of wing; if clear low water, the partridge's rump feather is best."</span></div>
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Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800750418606011894noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1336153333127516543.post-7883423157552980062016-10-19T06:30:00.002-04:002018-06-25T13:27:32.677-04:00Light Dun Hackle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Slyvester Nemes included the the Light Dun
Hackle as an example of Roger Woolley’s dressings in <i>Two Centuries of Soft-Hackled Flies</i> (2003). Woolley included it
under the heading of “Yorkshire and North Country Wet Flies” in the third
edition (1950) of his <i>Modern Trout Fly
Dressing</i> (1932). He dressed it with:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“<i>Body</i>.—Waxed yellow tying silk, ribbed fine flat gold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Hackle</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">.—Small pale dun feather from under starling wing.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800750418606011894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1336153333127516543.post-87912374059278470472016-10-05T06:30:00.000-04:002018-09-19T04:56:29.755-04:00Carrot Fly; Carrot and Black Nymph; or, Carrot Nymph<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This dressing substitutes yellow-green dyed quail undercovert for the green parrot Skues prescribed for the tail and yellow-green dyed covert in place of the poultry hackle.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">12-14<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Olive dyed quail covert fibers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rear 1/3—pale yellow wool; Middle 1/3—hot orange
wool; Front 1/3—green seal fur<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">G. E. M. Skues introduced anglers to the
Carrot Fly in the journal of the London Flyfisher’s Club in 1912 as proof of
“what asses trout are.” In 1975 winter
issue of </span><i>Fly Fisherman</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> magazine, T.
Donald Overfield notes that the response to the fly was mixed. Some anglers
questioned whether Skues was having a laugh; others, “perhaps shamefacedly,
cast it to the trout, with surprising results.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Overfield notes that the “tying is not
difficult,” but advises fly tiers to “aim for a steeply tapered body, as
shown in the ‘natural,’” a carrot: “The silk is waxed primrose (1). Tie in
two strands of green parrot feather-fiber, or its equivalent, (2) and return
the silk up the hook three turns. Tie in a length of pale yellow wool (3), bringing
the silk forward to one-third the length of the body. Wind the wool forward
and secure (4). Tie in a length of hot-orange wool (5) and take the silk up
the hook for another third. Wind the wool up to the silk and secure, (7). Now
tie in a length of greenish seal’s fur dubbing (8), and a short, fibred
hackle dyed olive-green (9). Wind the dubbing and secure. Take a few turns of
the hackle round the hook shank and secure with a whip-finish (10).”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Jay Zimmerman traces the history of the Carrot Fly in <i>The Best Carp Flies: How to Tie and Fish Them </i>(2015). He credits Skues with developing the first, but notes that Skues only casually mentions his Carrot Fly in the <i>The Way of a Trout with a Fly</i> (1921), where he called it "the famous Carrot fly." (Presumably, Skues deferred to this short-hand reference because of the fly's popularity following its introduction in the journal of the London Flyfisher's Club nine years earlier.) </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">For whatever reason, American fly tiers have exhibited a strong inclination to imitate garden produce in the pursuit freshwater species. Zimmerman notes that "Reuben Cross from Neversink, New York, introduced a nymph in his book <i>Tying American Trout Lures</i> (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1936) he called the Carrot and Black" fifteen years after Skues' <i>Way of the Trout with a Fly </i>(and twenty-four years after Skues' club journal article). Zimmerman cites Cross's directions: "'The Carrot and Black is tied with brown hackle tail, carrot-colored body with black Chenille shoulder and dun hackle wound on the same as with a wet fly. After you have finished off with the tying silk take your scissors and clip out the top and bottom whisks, leaving the side legs." Later a similar dressing, the Carrot Nymph as Elsie Darbee tied and named it, showed up in A. J. McClane's classic <i>McClane's Standard Fishing Encyclopedia</i> (Holt, Rinehart And Winston, 1965). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Zimmerman also suggests that Randall Kaufmann further confused the dressing in <i>American Nymph Fly Tying Manual</i> (1975) by calling it the Carrot Fly and giving it a dubious lineage. Kaufmann noted that the an "old standby for years in the east" and, incorrectly, only recently in the west, and his dressing emphasized "halloween colors" untrue to Cross's American original that "account for many fat rainbows and brookies from pond and stream alike" More confusing was that Kaufmann's explanation of the dressing "is a slight variation from the original," presumably Cross's. His fly uses black hackle for the tail and unclipped front hackle, and orange tying thread with a black chenille thorax for the body. </span></span></div>
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Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800750418606011894noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1336153333127516543.post-29437242266209998052016-09-21T06:30:00.000-04:002018-06-25T13:27:46.442-04:00Brown and Bright-Green Simplified Deep Sparkle Pupa<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">One-third olive Sparkle Yarn; two-thirds
bright green acrylic Craft fur<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Dark red grouse dressed sparsely, wrapped one
turn<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">With his seminal <i>Caddisflies</i> (1981), Gary LaFontaine changed the way anglers and
fly tiers looked at caddisfly representation. His signature Deep Sparkle Pupa
introduced anglers to the synthetic Sparkle Yarn for representing the air
bubbles trapped between the molting exoskeletal shuck and body of a hatching caddisfly. The dressing
itself has a clear soft-hackle heritage, though the body is perhaps better designed
to trap air bubbles that enhance the natural sparkle of the synthetic dubbing, and the hackle itself is so sparse as to be almost
nonexistent. The head, however, would be at home on any dressing historical
angler fished, like dressings of the <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2014/02/winter-brown-multiple-dressings.html">Winter Brown</a> and <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2013/06/dark-spanish-needle.html">Dark Spanish Needle</a> stoneflies or the Light Sedge caddis dressing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The Brown and Bright-Green Deep Pupa is second
on LaFontaine’s list of primary patterns:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">"HOOK: Mustad 94840<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">WEIGHT: lead or copper wire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">UNDERBODY: one-third olive Sparkle Yarn and two-thirds
bright green acrylic Craft fur (mixed and dubbed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">OVERBODY: medium olive Sparkle Yarn<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">HACKLE: dark grouse fibers (long wisps along the
lower half of the sides)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">HEAD: brown marabou strands or brown fur"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">LaFontaine chose to designate a more
traditional soft hackle style dressing of his Deep Sparkle Pupa as "Simplified" to avoid the confusion among anglers who purchased commercially-tied Deep Sparkle Pupas. He created this version because "fly-fishing friends
urged" him to design "an optional recipe minus the overbody, for easier and
quicker tying." He notes reservations about the effectiveness of the
simplified dressing, questioning "how effective this type is compared to the
regular pattern. They are much better than any drab-bodied creations, but
they are not quite as bright, nor do they trap air bubbles quite as well, as
the overbody style." He prefers the overbody "regular type" for his own
angling. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Authors like Bob Wyatt have recently questioned LaFontaine's premise in designing the Deep Sparkle Pupa pattern. In <i>What Trout Want</i> (2013), Wyatt argues that the "gas bubble phenomenon is undocumented in any scientific study because pharate caddisflies don't exude a gas that creates a bubble between their instar cuticles," and he points out that the "lack of evidence in itself is not proof that no such insect or behavior exists" and promises "when that proof is produced, I'll be happy to eat my baseball cap." Nevertheless, LaFontaine's pattern is, as Wyatt notes, "a very successful trout fly," and the fly itself remains, if not a strict imitation, at least "another very good attractor pattern."</span></div>
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Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800750418606011894noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1336153333127516543.post-34004743226864696292016-09-07T06:30:00.002-04:002018-09-09T08:26:05.401-04:00Maxwell’s Red and Blue<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This dressing uses a brownish hare’s fur from a hare’s neck. Taking a cue from the name of the dressing and the hackle, it assigns red tying thread.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Hook:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">12-18<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In the third edition of <i>Modern Fly Dressing</i> (1950), Roger Woolley includes a pair of
flies, Maxwell's Red and Maxwell's Blue, on his list of “Devon and West Country Wet Flies.” He dresses
Maxwell’s Red simply, as above:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“<i>Body</i>.—Hare’s flax, ribbed gold wire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This dressing uses a brownish hare’s fur from a hare’s neck and blue tying thread, though blue dun thread would create a more impressionistic dressing. However, in the spirit of the fly's namesake, a brighter blue is likely preferable to a more subdued shade. </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“<i>Body</i>.—Hare’s flax, ribbed silver wire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Hackle and Whisks</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">.— Medium to dark-blue dun cock.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Although Woolley makes no explicit attribution for the fly, the namesake is Sir Herbert Maxwell, who believed that the color
of a lure is less important in catching a fish than size and presentation. In
<i>British Fresh-Water Fishes</i> (1904),
Maxwell offers a reason why perch might be said to have superb vision and notes that “the colour sense in fish has been the subject of much
controversy among anglers, some of whom are anxiously particular about the
precise hues acceptable to surface-feeding fish. My own experience goes to
convince me that salmon, and even highly-educated chalkstream trout, are
singularly indifferent to the colours of the flies offered to them, taking a
scarlet or blue fly as readily as one closely assimilated to the natural
insect. Probably the position of the floating lure, between the fish’s eye
and the light, interferes with any nice discrimination of hue from reflected
rays.” He reiterates the point in while discussing salmon fishing in <i>Fishing at Home and Abroad</i> (1913),
suggesting that “it matters not one spin of the farthing whether the prevailing
hue of a fly be red or blue, yellow or black, or an equal combination of many
hues; and the only important consideration is that the lure be of suitable
size and be give life-like motion.” Yet for all the polite force of his
assertion, Maxwell confesses: “Well, that is the conclusion to which I have
been driven <i>malgré moi</i>; but such is the weakness of the human intelligence that I have found
it beyond my strength to act upon it,” and “consequently, I suppose I spend
as much time as anybody else at the outset of a day’s fishing in hesitating”
over which fly to fish first. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Maxwell’s argument might easily be dressed on
a fine wire hook with pale ginger tails and hackling, a pale blue dun wing,
and a body of pink silk ribbed with gold tinsel and then be cast across a choppy run on the Beaverkill or Willowemoc, after the fashion of George LaBranche and his <i>Dry Fly and Fast Water</i> (1914). Unlike Maxwell, however, LaBranche felt that
presentation was more important than color, shape, <i>and</i> size. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: x-small;">This dressing substitutes a mottled quail covert for "light-barred" landrail coverts and uses a red fox squirrel belly fur rather than the "reddish fur from the thigh of a squirrel."</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In their <i>Brook
and River Trouting</i> (1916), Harfield Edmonds and Norman Lee included the
Light Sedge as a dressing for a June <i>trichoptera </i>that will fish well throughout the rest of
the season. They dressed it with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“WINGS.—Hackled with a
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">BODY.—Yellow silk, No.
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">HEAD.—A reddish herl
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: start;">Michael Theakston’s original dressing is variable enough to allow for a wide range of materials and substitutions. This dressing takes the following liberties: it uses burnt orange thread, Wapsi synthetic blend red fox squirrel belly fur for the body, and an American woodcock rump feather for the hackling.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Michael Theakston includes a dressing for the
Light Dun in his <i>List of Natural Flies</i>
(1843), which might correlate to the Light Sedge that Brooks and Lee list for
June. Theakston’s Light Dun (a dun is a caddis or sedge in Theakston’s
nomenclature) “commences hatching this month [April], and are plentiful in
May in June, and again in autumn; but are out most in the dusk of evening.”
Theakston’s insect is “the produce of the codbait,” a case-building caddis
that constructs “artificial cases of some of the codbait tribe” with “small
particles of vegetable substances mingled with those of stone, attached to
them, which may impart a darker shade or freckle to the flies. The largest
codbait creepers, when the case is covered with particles of stone only,
produce the largest and lightest colored flies.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dressed in classic
soft hackle style, rather than the winged pattern Theakstons preferred, the Light Dun is: “imitated with feathers from the landrail, brown
owl, dotterel, brown hen, etcetera; with tawny, coppery colored silks, of
lighter or darker shades.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">While it certainly was not dressed to match a
British hatch, Ernest Schwiebert drew on the “little Scottish pattern called
the Corncrake and Yellow” as the “basis for the accompanying pupal imitation
for the accompanying pupal imitation of the Little Sand Sedge” he included in
<i>Nymphs</i> (1973).The Little Sand Sedge
American caddisfly that seems similar to those that historical British
angling authors describe:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“<i>Hook</i>: Sizes 12-14 Mustad 3906 sproat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Nylon</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">: Tan 6/0 nylon<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Body</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">: Pale dirty-yellowish dubbing<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800750418606011894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1336153333127516543.post-10462019800238948612016-08-10T06:30:00.000-04:002018-09-19T04:55:29.924-04:00Eric's Beetle<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This dressing substitutes a synthetic dubbing for peacock herl and starling hackle for hen.</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;"> </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Primrose worsted wool underbody overwrapped
with bronze Arizona synthetic peacock dubbing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tip<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In the 1975 Late-Season Angling issue of <i>Fly Fisherman</i> magazine, T. Donald
Overfield gives a brief history and dressing instructions for a Eric’s Beetle,
a fly designed in 1940, the “brainchild” of Eric
Horsfall Turner. Overfield describes Turner as “an observant entomologist, a world-class competitive
caster, an erudite writer and an accomplished fly dresser.” After observing a
live beetle draw a strike where his floating flies had not, he studied and
designed his artificial beetle. Turner made careful records of “all his
dressing experiments and river tests.” He determined that “yellow wool” was the
best color for the tip and “took more trout, under all conditions, than any
other color,” and he noted also that "the peacock herl body proved
superior to ostrich or marabou."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Overfield gives these instructions for dressing
the fly that correspond to a series of numbered instructions: “Take a #12
hook and wind the black silk (1) to a point opposite the barb. Tie in a
length of yellow wool (2). Take the silk forward for one eighth of an inch
(3).Give the wool two or three close turns behind the silk to form a yellow
butt (4); do not cut off the waste end. Tie in three peacock herls (5). Wind
the silk to the starting point and tie in a small black hen hackle (6). Now
wind the wool backwards and forwards (7) to provide a plump body. Take the
herl (8) and wind in close even turns over the wool (9). Give the hackle only
three turns (10) and complete the fly.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Overfield notes that Eric’s Beetle is best
fished “upstream, with the leader greased to within three or four inches of
the tippet point; as the fly drifts downstream under overhanging foliage, sinking
the while, it often brings surprising results.” Such a technique would likely
work well for other beetle patterns like the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2015/06/marlow-buzz-cocce-bundy-but-more.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Marlow Buzz</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2015/12/starling-and-herl-or-brown-clock.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Starling and Herl</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2015/09/bracken-clock-or-brechan-clock.html">Bracken Clock</a>, or perhaps T. E. Pritt's <a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2013/09/black-snipe.html">Black Snipe</a>. </span></div>
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Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800750418606011894noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1336153333127516543.post-54831038349997332692016-07-27T06:30:00.000-04:002018-06-25T13:28:28.855-04:00Copper King<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This dressing assigns a thread color since Roger Woolley does not and substitutes holopraphic tinsel for flat metal tinsel.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Copper holographic tinsel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In <i>Modern
Trout Fly Dressing </i>(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
<a href="http://softhacklepatternbook.blogspot.com/2014/08/greensleeves.html">“fancy” </a>f</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">or a number of reasons,</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> 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. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“<i>Body</i>.—Copper-coloured tinsel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Hackle</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">.—Brown partridge.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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