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| Hook: | Alec Jackson's Pryce-Tannatt Rational #4/0 blind eye.
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| Tail: | red breast father from the golden pheasant,
from point to bend.
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| Rib: | 4 turns of narrow flat gold tinsel,
led by narrow fine silver oval tinsel,
and another fine silver oval tinsel as a counter-rib.
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| Body: | dark olive Berlin wool.
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| Hackle: | natural blue eared pheasant, front half only.
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| Collar: | red breast father from the golden pheasant.
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| Wing: | bronze mallard, tented and very low, horizontal style.
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| Head: | black.
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| Note: | Named after a member of the dukedom at Gordon Castle
on the Spey River. Created by the head ghillie
(fisherman and fly tier, we would call him a guide today)
of Gordon Castle.
The best known of all Spey patterns.
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