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Gold Heron
as per Knox
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| | Hook: | Partridge Bartleet Supreme CS10/1 #2/0.
| | Rib: | 4 turns wide flat gold tinsel,
with fine silver oval tinsel trailing,
and fine gold oval tinsel as a counter-rib.
| | Body: | black Berlin wool.
| | Hackle: | natural blue eared pheasant,
between the flat gold tinsel and the silver oval tinsel.
| | Collar: | teal.
| | Wing: | bronze mallard, tented and very low, horizontal style.
| | Head: | black.
| | Note: | A classic Spey River fly.
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Fly tied and photographed by R. J. Brown.
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