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Dusty Miller

Salmon/Steelhead · Salmon · Steelhead · Advanced · 2 versions

Classic Recipe

  • Hook up-eye salmon single, 1/0-4/0
  • Thread black 8/0

Materials

  • Tag Oval silver tinsel and yellow floss (small)
  • Tail Golden pheasant crest topping and Indian crow (1)
  • Butt Black ostrich herl (2 turns)
  • Body Rear two-thirds embossed silver tinsel, front third orange floss (2 sections)
  • Rib Oval silver tinsel (5 turns)
  • Throat Golden-olive cock hackle over the front third, then guinea fowl (gallina) (1 each)
  • Wing Married white-tipped turkey tail, golden pheasant tail, bustard, florican bustard, goose dyed orange/yellow/red, married barred wood duck and teal, bronze mallard over, golden pheasant topping over all (married)
  • Cheeks Jungle cock (1 per side)
  • Head Black ostrich herl (small)

How to tie it

  1. Form a tag of oval silver and yellow floss, tie in a golden pheasant crest tail with Indian crow over, and wind a black ostrich herl butt.
  2. Wrap the rear two-thirds in embossed silver tinsel and the front third in orange floss, ribbing the silver section with oval silver in evenly spaced turns.
  3. Wind a golden-olive hackle over the orange front third, then a turn of gallina, and sweep the fibers down as the throat.
  4. Marry the wing from white-tipped turkey, golden pheasant tail, bustard, florican, goose dyed orange/yellow/red, and married wood duck and teal, with bronze mallard over and a topping arching over all.
  5. Set jungle cock cheeks.
  6. Whip finish a small black head and cement.

Other versions

1 more in the app: Gregg Dressing (1940).

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