Not sure this will be easy to follow as i think you need 3 hands to show what your doing, taking pics of certain parts impossible on your own. Anyway ive been asked by a couple of forum members to do one, so a bit of walking from table to window and using bigger hackles in this one to highlight it, maybe should have used bigger hook too but here it is anyway.

Tie in oval gold wire.


Tail of your choice/ i used brown/black cock pheasant breast feather.


Then add dubbing/ i used olive.


Then tie in yellow hackle.


Palmer hackle back through dubbing catch waste bit with wire and rib body.


Trim waste wire and add red hackle.


Give 3 turns and prepare french partridge/ i use 2.


Tie first one against red hackle like this/ tip first.


Trim waste bit and keep thread where the hackle will be wound to like this.


When i strip the partridge hackle as i am doing these i aim to get 3 turns only from them/ when winding them on always stroke the fibers back to help them face backwards.


Trim waste bit and add second partridge hackle.


As i said b4 i always aim to get 3 turns of partridge when i prepare them and always stroke them back to aid facing backwards.


I pull the stalk piece back with hackle and tie it down with 3 to 4 turns of thread and then whip finish and give the white stalk a quick pull to break it off/ then pull the hackles evenly up and down to give the finished result.


Feel likes ive walked miles going back and forth from table to window for pics, hope this is of some help not easy to get right pics on your own.

Geordie.

Excellent geordie,

your sbs makes it look really easy

Cheers Liam,.....maybe should have used long shank hook for this one, but it turned out ok.

Looks perfect mate,


bronze mallard instead of the partridge and you got a dabbler mate

Great SBS Geordie.



Sean

Still not got any mallard to give them a go m8, must try and get some when i sort some funds.

Not up to your usual stansard Geordie now I want 300 hundred lines saying "Must send 3 dozen of these to Derek ASAP"

Seriously though, great SBS matey, very clear. Well done

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Mallard in really short supply geordie, gerry hopefully is sending some over to me from scotland, i guess its a shortage everywhere

Aye...been a tough old winter this year.

Very nice,beautifully tied

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