Mount the dry hook and start black thread. Tie in a sparse golden-pheasant tippet tail about one shank long.
Build the royal body: wrap a butt of peacock herl at the bend, band the middle with red floss, then a second butt of peacock herl at the front. Herl, red, herl.
Tie in a bunch of white calf tail as a downwing lying flat and swept back over the body, reaching to about the bend.
Tie in a brown hackle and take several turns as a full collar in front of the wing.