Teddy Baseball (Var)

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Teddy Baseball (Var)

Hook - Salmon/steelhead style
Trgead - Black
Tail - Golden pheasant crest
Butt - Yellow floss
Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel
Body - Black wool
Throat hackle - Black
Wing - Greyish mottled monkey hair over 2 strands each of red and yellow floss

Shoulder - Jungle cock

Variation - Grey squirrel tail is the closest I have to greyish mottled monkey hair

Reference - Hair-wing Atlantic Salmon Flies - Keith Fulsher & Charles Krom

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What!!! Your local shop does not stock monkey hair - oh the horror!!:smiley:
Mike

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no kidding

the closest silver back gorilla to me is in the bronx zoo and i dont think they would appreciate clipping a little hair for 1 fly :slight_smile:

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While I might resent the monkey label I, like many on this board, have a literal lifetime supply of grey hair.