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Durham Ranger
Pattern as per Francis Francis, Designed by Mr. Scruton of Durham and Dressed by Monte Smith
Name | Durham Ranger |
Category | Atlantic Salmon |
Hook | Heritage Pryce-Tannatt, #4/0 |
Tip | Fine oval silver tinsel |
Tag | Yellow silk |
Tail | Golden pheasant crest |
Tail Veiling | Indian crow or substitute |
Butt | Black ostrich |
Ribs | Fine silver lace and narrow flat silver tinsel |
Body | In four equal sections of Golden yellow floss; orange, fiery brown, and black seal's fur or substitute |
Hackle | Badger dyed yellow |
Throat | A light blue hackle |
Wing | A pair of jungle cock feathers, back to back, covered for 3/4 of their length by a pair of golden pheasant tippets, back to back. These are covered by a shorter pair of
tippets reaching to, and covering, the second black bar of the first pair. Jungle cock as a wing veiling |
Cheek | Blue chatterer or substitute with kingfisher |
Topping | Golden pheasant crest |
Horns | Blue and yellow macaw |
This fantastic version of the Durham Ranger is tied by Oregon Contributing Fly Tyer, Monte Smith. You can see more of Monte's flies at The Flies of Monte Smith.
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