Heron the Great

Fly: Trevor Nowak, Photograph: Hans Weilenmann

Hook: bartleet salmon Size 3/0
Thread: 6/0 Uni – Silver Dr blue
Tag: oval silver
Tail: blue chatterer veiled over golden pheasant crest
Butt: blue ostrich herl
Rib: oval silver tinsel
Body: rear half – kingfisher blue seal’s fur; front half – dark blue seal’s fur
Body hackle: rear half – badger neck hackle dyed kingfisher blue; front half – heron or natural blue-eared pheasant or substitute
Throat: guinea dyed blue
Wing: two matched goose shoulder strips, white or dyed blue
Cheeks: jungle cock eyes
Head: tying thread painted with two coats of Cellire



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