Interesting how a slight change in a dressing results in a different name.

For quite a few years, I've tied various "thread and hackle dressings" with the addition of a thorax or wire rib - sometimes both - and just continued to call them as a P&O, P&Y, etc.

letumgo wrote: ↑Sat Jan 08, 2022 7:22 am Appears to be the model #1402, but just a guess…

Close - #1302 ordered directly from Ian at Wheatley last summer.

"Dear Bob
Thank you for your email.
We can still supply the 1302 3'' swing leaf box.
£45 per box.
£20 shipping.

Regards
Ian"

Bob

I couldn't find the small, leaf style Wheatley clip boxes Stateside, so a couple months ago, I ordered two more boxes that I filled up with spiders and soft hackles.

Saw this on a UK site and thought I'd give it a try.

Here's the link for the original dressing: ( https://www.robdenson.co.uk/rough-red-cruncher)

Whoops - forgot that the hooks were Daiichi 1550 size 16.

Interesting dressing.

Bob - Could you list the full dressing? Definitely looks "catchy". :D ;) The thread was 8/0 black Danville; tail - a few pieces of black hen hackle; body small siver tinsel (thread covered with head cement before wrapping the tinsel body); starling hackle (taken from the fuller feathers n...

Recently, after looking at some salmon fly dressings that had silver tinsel in the dressings, I thought I'd give it a try with a small spider. The thread was 8/0 black Danville; tail a few pieces of black hen hackle; body small siver tinsel (thread covered with head cement before wrapping the tinsel...

Looks a bit like theRev. Powell;s "Orange Otters", eh? (MANY turns of hen hackles, pretty mjch making it a dry fly, per the Rev. Powell's dressings!)

ForumGhillie wrote: ↑Fri Dec 17, 2021 1:25 pm Bob (joaniebo), very nice.

What did you use for the blue hot spot?

John

John

Kingfisher Blue Goose Shoulder Feathers

Bob