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Messing around with Peacock

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Hello everyone !!

 

I was a little bored , so I started to play around with some Peacock feathers . I have recently acquired a complete full skin including the entire tail of a mature male peacock . Yup , enough herl and swords to last a few life times for sure . Some very interesting rump , back and shoulder feathers too :rolleyes: We'll see what may come next . I'll apologize now for the poor picture quality .

 

 

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Mike

 

 

 

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good tie. When you tye with peacock do you wrap the herl around your thread before you wrap it around your hook shank?

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good tie. When you tye with peacock do you wrap the herl around your thread before you wrap it around your hook shank?

 

I don't bother with tying thread , I use a very fine copper wire ..... it's finer than tying thread and 10x stronger !! It also add's a little flash . That being said , I always use a wire rib with any herl . On this pattern , I also used red beading silk along with the fine silver wire rib .

 

 

 

Mike

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Mike : It looks like a salmon catching fly for sure . Is that a Bartleet Supreme hook you used ? .......Frank

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Thank-you all for the kind words .

 

Frank ,

 

The hook is a Partridge CS10/2 . As you can tell it's a "fishing" fly , hence the pinched barb . The one pictured is a #6 , but I tied them in sizes #10 and #8 as well . I made up a few variations using gold , copper , blue and purple for the rib and tag .

 

 

 

Mike

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