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Balmoral
W. Murdoch
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| | Hook: | Alec Jackson's Pryce-Tannatt Rational #4/0 blind eye.
| | Tip: | fine silver oval tinsel.
| | Tag: | orange silk floss.
| | Tail: | golden pheasant crest,
veiled by golden pheasant tippet.
| | Rib: | medium flat silver tinsel led by medium gold oval tinsel,
with fine silver oval tinsel as a counter.
| | Body: | rear 2/3 highlander green SLF;
front 1/3 royal blue SLF.
| | Hackle: | black dyed blue eared pheasant,
trailing the flat silver tinsel.
| | Collar: | gadwall.
| | Cheeks: | jungle cock, drooping.
| | Wing: | light tan 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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