Peacock Fly 1838

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Peacock Fly 1838

Post by Roadkill » Sun Aug 14, 2022 5:48 pm

After talking to my fishing buddy Ken who just had a good time with a hot spot Prince Nymph on our old Eastern Oregon home water, I thought I would tie some of my old favorite simple peacock brown & gray hackles with hot spot thread.

I decided to do some research on Peacock patterns in Andrew Herd's Trout Fly Patterns 1496-1916 V2.
I came across this simple little fly from William Shipley's A True Treatise on the Art of Fly-fishing, Trolling, Etc, 1838 and just had to tie some first.
Directions:
Peacock herl for body; a blueish-dun hackle for legs. To be dressed with greenish Pomona silk.

ImageRIMG7312 by William Lovelace, on Flickr

Hook-Dai Riki Model 70 #16
Thread- #395 Kimono Silk
Body-Peacock
Hackle-Whiting Natural Medium Dun Hen

Next my tie will be an 1807 Peacock Hackle with red silk and hackle. to test with the HS peacock brown & gray hackles. ;)
Last edited by Roadkill on Fri Aug 26, 2022 12:07 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Peacock Fly

Post by letumgo » Sun Aug 14, 2022 6:15 pm

Wonderful stuff, Bill. Nice to see a recipe dating back that far. I get a kick out of fishing old patterns.

Happy hooking! ;)
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Re: Peacock Fly

Post by DarrellP » Tue Aug 16, 2022 11:56 pm

Is that one turn of hackle? Beautiful series here.
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Re: Peacock Fly

Post by Roadkill » Wed Aug 17, 2022 12:19 am

2 turns of hackle.
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Re: Peacock Fly

Post by DarrellP » Wed Aug 17, 2022 6:49 am

Thank you.
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