Our natural Heron is the premium Our sober Spey, in the matter of salmon fly-hooks, is gradually yielding to the garish influence of the times. AAA Blue Eared Pheasant Shin Add to cart Page 1 of 1 1 Category Rods (42) Single Hand Rods (26) Two Handed Rods (16) Reels (42) Hatch (7) Waterworks Lamson (8) … View from side of bundle (sorry about the photo, seems to have compressed!). All researched material and pictures Copyright Colin Innes 2008 - 2015. The tinsel is then wound to the right, parallel with the other two, and across the hackle stem at every turn. So what does a really old Spey Fly look like?You will see some vintage examples in the Patterns section below, some of these come from recognised sources such as JAJ Munro of Aberlour. Knox - Autumns on the SpeyGold-green Fly. A must have for anyone who ties buggers. M Holding Bind in 2 strands of black berlin wool, 8. a correct feather size or colour may vary from ours. Natural, Blue, Red, Orange, Green & Yellow. The fibers on these feathers are long and very stiff, perfect for tailing. Suitable alternative to Blue Eared Pheasant. The Spey cock--a cross between the Hamburg cock and the old Scottish mottled hen--was fifty years ago bred all along Speyside expressly for its feathers, used in dressing salmon flies; but the breed is all but extinct now, or rather, perhaps, has been crossed and re-crossed out of recognition. Thus, an ordinary fancy fly, with say a wool or fur body, would have all the parts which are indicated in italics, where as the Spey fly takes only those that are described, viz:-. Och that’s the fellow that can throw a loine. Secure 2 strand of orange berlin wool at (6) o clock. Hackle very long, of the slate-coloured back hackles of the heron. Used for hackling Spider patterns where a blue dun hackle is needed. the finest quality natural materials. From Gardens 1917 catalogueA vintage Jungle Heron, A vintage fly from JAJ Munro of Aberlour-on-Spey c1910-1920 (part of a set of sample flies), The 3 flies above are part of Paul Harkin's collection and show interesting variations of the Lady CFrom the fishing Gazette (William Brown). Though not the same feather it is as close as you can get. We staunch adherents to the traditional Spey blacks and browns, we who have bred Spey cocks for the sake of their feathers, and have sworn through good report and through evil report by the pig's down or Berlin wool for body, the Spey cock for hackle, and the mallard drake for wings, have jeered at the kaleidoscopic fantasticality of the leaves of their fly-books turned over by adventurers from the south country and Ireland; and have sneered at the notion that a self-respecting Spey salmon would so far demoralise himself as to be allured by a miniature presentation of Liberty's shop-window. Knox - Autumns on the SpeyGold-Green Reeach. colours: Its undulating movements under water exactly resembled those of a living shrimp or prawn, while the continuous play of the long soft hackles of the heron or fowl — so characteristic of the old Spey flies — imitated still more closely the actions of those small, but many-legged crustaceous animals, as I had frequently observed them in the aquarium of the Zoological Society. “Throat Hackle, which is generally teal, wound in the ordinary fashion. Shoulder hackle of teal or guinea-fowl. 9. Those which are in vogue during the spring months in the upper waters, when the river is exceedingly high and rapid and the pools unusually deep, being really enormous compared with their minute representatives which are generally found most successful in the summer months and early autumn, but much must be left to the judgment of the fisherman himself; there is no role without an exception, and I have frequently found it necessary, after a moderate rise of the water, to employ flies twice as large as those which I had found of faultless dimensions but a few days before. Mallard or Drake Wing. Caverswall Red cock hackle. Wing, mallard. Makes nice hackles for spey flies. Purple wool body (red and blue mixed), gold and silver tinsel equal (thread gold and silver and arrange above the feather). Food for thought and long discussions over a pint! Natural Grey, Natural Red Brown, Dyed Black. Of specific Spey hooks in favour at the present time the following is, perhaps, a fairly correct and comprehensive list: purple king, green king, black king, silver heron, gold heron, black dog, silver riach, gold riach, black heron, silver green, gold green, Lady Caroline, carron, black fancy, silver spale, gold spale, culdrain, dallas, silver thumbie, Sebastopol, Lady Florence March,  gold purpie, and gled (deadly in "snawbree").

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