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Jock Scott

Salmon/Steelhead · Salmon · Steelhead · Advanced · 3 versions

Classic Recipe

  • Hook classic salmon iron, black japanned, 2/0-6
  • Thread black 8/0 or finer

Materials

  • Tag Silver twist and yellow floss (few turns)
  • Tail Golden pheasant topping + Indian crow (sub: dyed red feather) (1 + 1)
  • Butt Black ostrich herl (2 turns)
  • Body rear half Golden yellow floss, ribbed fine silver, veiled with toucan (sub: dyed yellow) above and below, butted with black herl (as listed)
  • Body front half Black floss with natural black hackle down it (1 + 1)
  • Ribs front half Silver lace and flat silver tinsel (1 each)
  • Throat Speckled guinea fowl (1-2 turns)
  • Wing Married strips: bustard, grey mallard, golden pheasant tail, peacock sword, red macaw, blue and yellow swan; bronze mallard over (built wing)
  • Sides/cheeks Jungle cock + kingfisher (2 + 2)
  • Topping Golden pheasant crest (1)

How to tie it

  1. Wind the silver twist and yellow floss tag above the point, add the topping-and-crow tail, and butt with black ostrich herl.
  2. Wrap the rear half of the body in golden yellow floss ribbed with fine silver; veil it above and below with toucan substitutes and butt again with black herl. The double-butted, veiled midpoint is the fly's hallmark.
  3. Wrap the front half in black floss, palmering a natural black hackle down it and ribbing with silver lace and flat tinsel.
  4. Wind 1-2 turns of guinea fowl as the throat.
  5. Build the married wing: paired strips of bustard, mallard, golden pheasant tail, swan dyed blue and yellow, red macaw and peacock sword, married fiber-to-fiber, with a roof of bronze mallard over the top. Marry each side as a mirror image so the wing sits straight.
  6. Add jungle cock sides with kingfisher cheeks, a golden pheasant crest topping curving to meet the tail, then form a perfect small head, whip finish and lacquer.

Other versions

2 more in the app: Joe Penich, Gregg Dressing (1940).

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