Tying Atlantic Salmon and Spey Flies, Tying Contest '05 - Freestyle - My 1st Time, by Keith Brown,Fly Angler's OnLine

My 1st Time by Keith Brown

Hook: Daiichi, Alec Jackson 3/0.

Tag: Oval gold tinsel, purple floss
ribbed with flat silver tinsel.

Tail: Golden Pheasant crest over Amgold crest.

Butt: Red Peacock herl.

Body: Rear 1/3 blue dun rabbit dubbing,
clipped short ribbed with oval gold tinsel, veiled
with blue Peacock on top and Mandarin Duck head
feathers below, joint of red Peacock herl, 1/3
orange floss ribbed with flat gold tinsel, 1/3
salmon pink rabbit dubbing.

Hackle: Purple dyed Shell Duck flank
stripped on one side starting at second turn of
flat tinsel and over rabbit dubbing.

Throat: Two Golden Pheasant breast feathers.

Wing: Blue Jay over Mandarin Duck.

Cheek: Blue Jay over Mandarin Duck.

Head: Salmon pink rabbit dubbing, black thread.


Originally published May 15, 2005 on Fly Anglers Online by Keith Brown.