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Grenadine Spey
R. J. Brown
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| | Hook: | Daiichi 2052 #1.5, nickel finish, Alek Jackson Spey.
| | Tip: | medium flat copper tinsel, 2 turns.
| | Tag: | claret uni-floss, twice as wide as the tip.
| | Tail: | Lady Amherst pheasant crest, short.
| | Rib: | 5 turns of medium flat silver tinsel,
led by medium oval silver tinsel,
with fine silver oval tinsel as a counter-rib.
| | Body: | rear 2/3 orange uni-floss,
front 1/3 yellow-orange SLF,
using Syd Glasso's split floss technique.
| | Hackle: | natural blue eared pheasant.
| | Collar: | guinea.
| | Cheeks: | jungle cock, drooping.
| | Wing: | goose shoulder, orange with 2 barbs of claret
married to the bottom, set low, but vertical style.
| | Head: | red.
| | Note: | Named because it looks like grenadine and orange juice
before it is stirred.
Mainly because of the wings, this is arguably more like
a Dee fly than a Spey fly.
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Fly tied and photographed by R. J. Brown.
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