A few more featherwings: Black Ghost, Garrison, Bean Special, and the Gees-Beau

[Alberto]

All the snow we have gotten in New England has given me a chance to sit at my desk, here are a few of the ties:

Black Ghost Herb Welch pattern
Hook: Fulling Mill 3220, sz 4
Tail: yellow hackle fibers
Body: black floss ribbed with flat silver tinsel
Throat: yellow hackle fibers
Wing: two pairs white hackle feathers
Eyes: jungle fowl
Head: black thread



Hummer Carrie Stevens pattern
Hook: Mustad 3665A, sz 2
Tag: flat silver tinsel
Body: orange floss ribbed with flat silver tinsel
Throat: white bucktail
Underwing: 4-6 peacock herls
Wing: two pairs grizzly hackle feathers
Shoulder: barred woodduck feather
Eyes: jungle fowl
[/COLOR]Head: black thread



Bean Special
Hook: TMC300, sz 2
Tail: barred wooduck slips
Body: white floss ribbed with flat silver tinsel
Throat: yellow hackle fibers followed by red hackle fibers
Wing: two pairs of white hackle feathers
Head: black thread



Gees-Beau
Hook: Partridge CS17, Ken Baker streamer hook, sz 2
Tail: orange goose shoulder slips
Body: back half flat silver tinsel, front half yellow yarn, ribbed with oval silver tinsel
Throat: yellow hackle fibers
Wing: two pairs of white hackle feathers with orange goose slips veiling them
Eyes: jungle fowl
Head: black thread



The Fulling Mill hooks are a 4X long streamer hook. The Ken Baker is a salmon streamer hook with a return eye which gives a wider surface to tie in wings for Herb Welck type streamers. I will be using these for a few more Herb Welch patterns I"m working on.

I hope you enjoy these,

Alberto