Ron Eagle Elk wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2024 10:28 am Very clean dressing, Wayne. Fish food for sure. That hackle looks a bit more like furnace to me, but it could just be the thorax giving the list a darker hue. One to copy, as always.

Ron, the color is kind of a "tweener". Not quite furnace, not quite Brown. Good eye my friend.

Hook- WFC model 7, in sizes 16 and 14
Hackle- Whiting hen, natural Brown
Thread /Body- Veevus B13
Tail- Ginger Pardo, CDL
Thorax- Muskrat, lightly teased out with a toothbrush

Roadkill wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2024 9:17 am

DUBBN wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2024 8:21 am I sure like your Lightning series . I may have to purchase a white hen cape.

Mine arrived in the mail yesterday, along with the white thread!!

I sure like your Lightning series . I may have to purchase a white hen cape.

Plain brass.

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