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Akroyd 1
Pryce-Tannatt
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| | Hook: | Alec Jackson's Pryce-Tannatt Rational #4/0 blind eye.
| | Tag: | medium silver oval tinsel from barb to point.
| | Tail: | golden pheasant crest,
veiled by golden pheasant tippet.
| | Rib: | medium silver oval tinsel tied in at the rear,
wound the usual way, so as to cross the hackles
and serve as a counter-rib.
| | Body: | rear 1/2 yellow-orange SLF;
front 1/2 black silk floss.
| | Hackle: | rear 1/2 palmered with yellow saddle,
tied in at the front by the tip,
wound contrary to the usual way,
held down by the rib;
front 1/2 black dyed blue eared pheasant,
tied in at the front by the tip,
wound contrary to the usual way,
held down by the rib.
| | Collar: | teal.
| | Cheeks: | jungle cock, drooping.
| | Wing: | bleached dark cinnamon turkey tail,
mounted flat, V-style.
| | Head: | black.
| | Note: | A classic Dee River fly.
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Fly tied and photographed by R. J. Brown.
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