I bought these hooks on eBay.

Bronze mallard wet fly wings might have been the better term since the question really wasn't about dabblers but a style of wing.

Dana, your chukar sounds like it could stand in for a lapwing. I plan to dye a chukar skin with yellow dye for the same effect. Roger Fogg used Pantone markers on French partridge.

Dabblers are Irish lake flies. The wing in this video looks to me like a standard bronze mallard wet fly wing.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=you ... koBKcbtp4k

Moscow Hide and Fur has lots of chukar for sale. They also sell the tails separately. Cutting the feather shaft maximizes the length of the slip but you're right, the size of the tail limits it's usefulness.

The Cow Fly fly illustrated in Alfred Ronalds' "The Fly Fisher's Entomology" no. 6

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ite ... 5/mode/1up

Those cows might leave some dubbing where they like to rub.

Ogden says the wings should be put on flat. I'm not sure what that means.

https://books.google.com/books?id=BvxIA ... en&f=false

I think chukar tail make a good substitute for landrail.

Great looking fly and photo!



Tim Nichols photo (2004)