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GS.James.Wright Tag: Silver tinsel, yellow silk. Tail: Gold phesant crest and a Chatterer. Butt: Scarlet Berlin wool. Body: Black silk. Ribbing: Oval silver tinsel. Hackle: A blue cock hackle from second turn. Throat: Jay. Wing: Tippets in strands, Pintail, dark mottled turkey,Swan dyed blue and yellow, red Macaw, Gold pheasant tail, Gallina, Mallard, and a topping. Cheeks: A Chatterer or Kingfisher. Horns: Blue and yellow Macaw. Head: Scarlet wool. |
James "Jemmy" Wright (1829-1902) was the father of a bunch of classic flies including the Black Ranger, Thunder and Lightning, Silver Grey, Dandy, Greenwell and he also seems to have had a part in creating The Silver Wilkinson. The Doctor series began with one fly, named appropriately, The Doctor. From what I understand, Wright used this as a basis for the Blue Doctor and later The Black and The Silver Doc's as well. The Black Doctor pattern is described in nearly all of the classic books , very different from one to another. Wright and Kelson gave the fly a blue hackle, Hale and Hardy a black hackle, Taverner had a claret hackle, and Pryce-Tannatt was ,as usual, changing the whole fly withoutchanging the original name. Strange man, destroying such a nice pattern without shame. |