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Old 04-01-2010, 10:21 PM
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Default Butter Cup

Just threw this together while having a look round the garden a while back which was full of buttercup flowers.

Hook; size 10 kam b175
Tag; fluorescent wool
Body; olive seals fur
Body hackle; yellow hen (palmared)
Rib; oval gold tinsel
Throat hackle; hot orange cock hackle
Head hackle; olive hen

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Old 04-01-2010, 10:24 PM
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now geordie that is a smasher!!,
like that a lot
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Very nice.

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Old 04-01-2010, 10:27 PM
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now geordie that is a smasher!!,
like that a lot
Cheers liam....think Peter mite have a wee variant of this one
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got a dabbler, melvin octopus goats toe gorgeous george look about it mate,



love the colours,
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Old 04-01-2010, 10:30 PM
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Brilliant Geordie well tied mate
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got a dabbler, melvin octopus goats toe gorgeous george look about it mate,



love the colours,
Got the wool in tail from pops when he returned from Alaska and did a few green tags with it as im sure you have already noticed in my patterns.
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Old 04-01-2010, 10:36 PM
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yeah mate you like that green tag ok, looks good and bright,

love the body and hackle colours on that fly

the hot orange gives it a real lift
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Old 04-01-2010, 10:39 PM
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Default A wee olive

something i tied a while back haven't tried it yet.


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Old 04-01-2010, 10:41 PM
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Lolol pull them thru a wave and they look the same,

same colours just differant materials

uncanny!!!!
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