GS.William Blacker
Tag: Silver tinsel, yellow silk.
Tail: Red Ibis and Blue Macaw.
Butt: Black Ostrich.
Body: In four parts.
Nr 1: light blue silk ribbed gold tinsel and butted a hackle and ostrich in same color as the silk.
Nr 2: Orange silk, ribbed and butted as above.
Nr 3: Puce silk, ribbed and butted as above.
Nr 4: Pear green silk, ribbed and butted as above.
Throat: 1-2 Red-brownish hackle from the gump of the Golden pheasent.
Wing: Yellow Macaw feathers with black center and blue tips, strips o Golden pheasent tippets and Argus pheasent and 2-3 nice toppings.
Sides: Ibis.
Cheeks: Purple Lori (I was using Enameld Trush).
Horns: Blue and yellow Macaw.
Head: Black.
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This nice creation is from start a pattern that comes from mr Blacker, but he have for some reason choice to show the Ballyshannon as the fly for Shannon.
There are several different variations of this fly as of almost all popular ones. Some dresser was using yellow hackle instead of the Macaw feathers, and Fitzgibbon had orange silk and sealsfur as tag and the body was splitted in just two sections, first of light orange silk and secon of blue silk, all ribbed with broad silver, gold twist and a stripped light blue cock hackle fronted with jay and a Topping wing.
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