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Old 21-03-2011, 06:31 PM
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Could anyone supply the dressing for this flea ?Thanks in advance.

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Old 21-03-2011, 06:38 PM
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tail cock pheasant fibre tips
body cock pheasant sometimes weighted
rib copper wire
hackle brown partridge.
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The original was not weighted.I heard this from the inventor 1 week ago.

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Old 21-03-2011, 06:52 PM
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Thanks for the help lads , that dressing rings a bell as I tied one many moons ago when I first started tying , it turned out **** but now I have a bit o experience tying it will probably turn out a bit less **** . cheers lads .

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Mm!

I thought it was tied using orange thread, pheasant tail for tail and body, silver wire rib and a grey partridge feather?
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The original was not weighted.I heard this from the inventor 1 week ago.

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Sure about that Jim, usually fished quite deep on the Endrick
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Mm!

I thought it was tied using orange thread, pheasant tail for tail and body, silver wire rib and a grey partridge feather?
the dressing i gave is of john roberts, there maybe different dressings in other books etc, B
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the dressing i gave is of john roberts, there maybe different dressings in other books etc, B
Me too, page 117.

He describes the copper wire rib abd brown patridge hackle as a variant.

The picture on page 115 looks more like the variant.
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Yes Graham,I mentioned weight to john Last week.and he said he never tied any that had extra weight.So there you go.

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