Jock Scott 2/0...

[eunanhendron]

...streamer!! The Davie McPhail fly featured on Streamers365 last year. I tied it back then too, about 9 months ago, but had cause to tie it again today.

Hook is a 2/0 partridge effort.
Everything is per the pattern, except i used pintail for the throat instead of teal.

Tag: Flat silver tinsel
Rear Collar: Yellow hackle wrapped (yellow macaw used here)
Butt: Black ostrich herl
Body: 2 equal sections of black and yellow floss
Rib: Flat silver tinsel
Collar: Black hackle
Belly: White bucktail and a golden pheasant crest sweeping upwards
Wing: Yellow hackle flanked by red flanked by blue hackle flanked by a slip of bustard
Topping: Peacock herl and golden pheasant crest
Throat: Teal
Cheek: Kingfisher
Eye: Jungle ****
Horns: Macaw
Head: Black

 

[whheff]

very nice.

 

[tctrout]

eunanhendron wrote:
...streamer!! The Davie McPhail fly featured on Streamers365 last year. I tied it back then too, about 9 months ago, but had cause to tie it again today.

Great work; how long did it take you to tie? I've always wanted to get into salmon flies, but haven't made the leap...yet!

TC

 

[eunanhendron]

this one took me about 2 hours, but its not your 'traditional' jock scott, more of a streamer conversion.

I"m tying the original right now, so i'll post it when i'm done.

Eunan