One for Midlander: Sir Henry Redvers Buller

[Cap'n Fishy]

Dressing:

Hook: Kawasaki 750, size 10

Thread: The Celebrated Talbot Machine Twist, Shade 10

Tail: Arctic redpoll crest, over Lady Amherst pheasant tippet coloured with an Oatmeal Letraset marker

Body: 23% wool from the scrotum of a honey badger, steeped in pig's urine for one year; 31% Krakatoa, East of Java-dyed apricot Kapok; 46% contents of the Hoover bag

Body hackle: La Fayette's jungle fowl

Rib: 4.75 turns of ginger wire

Under-wing: Red-crested pochard flank, dyed coronal mass ejection

Over-wing: Swinhoe's storm petrel, 4th secondary. (Note: if Swinhoe's storm petrel is unavailable, Wilson's storm petrel makes a suitable, if slightly inferior substitute)

Head hackle: Cabot's tragopan breast feather

Cheeks: jungle cock, mottled with a Pantone pen, shade 463-M




I like it.

Col

[Scratch]

Nice Col, I'll be fettling a few of those up this weekend for sure. I'm a bit stuck for Cabot's Tragopan though... will Western Tragopan do?

[Wee Jimmy]

They won't have seen that yin before lad........can ye get that storm petrel dyed WOI......

[Cap'n Fishy]

Originally Posted by Scratch

Nice Col, I'll be fettling a few of those up this weekend for sure. I'm a bit stuck for Cabot's Tragopan though... will Western Tragopan do?

I'm sure that will be fine Rob. I don't think the fish will see any difference.

Col

[wingman]

Isn't there a variant of this that uses bull*%"t for the thorax
Great looking fly though.

[midlander]

Interesting mix Col, surprised at the use of the Lafayette. Unfortunately I've just emptied the hoover, will blue naval fluff do? Got everything else but need to get the Pantone marker.

[dabhoy]

Right I had better head across the water to Mousa as this is the best time to get some petrel so if anyone needs a top up

[Cap'n Fishy]

Originally Posted by dabhoy

Right I had better head across the water to Mousa as this is the best time to get some petrel so if anyone needs a top up

I'm OK for storm petrel Kevin, but if you come across some gannet biots...

Col

[Scratch]

Originally Posted by Cap'n Fishy

but if you come across some gannet biots...

I could do with some of them too... just the ticket for my 'Shortshank Redemption'

[Cap'n Fishy]

Originally Posted by Wee Jimmy

They won't have seen that yin before lad........can ye get that storm petrel dyed WOI......

I think ye would need to dye it yersel' lad. Try 3 parts picric to 2 parts BFK.

Col