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| Hook: | Alec Jackson's Pryce-Tannatt Rational #4/0 blind eye.
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| Rib: | 5 turns of wide flat silver tinsel,
with medium silver oval tinsel as a counter-rib.
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| Tail: | golden pheasant yellow rump feather tip.
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| Butt: | yellow Berlin wool for 1/5 total body length.
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| Body: | black Berlin wool.
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| Hackle: | black dyed blue eared pheasant, along the rib.
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| Collar: | teal.
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| Wing: | 6 jungle cock feathers, 3 on each side,
the longest inside, shortest outside,
so there is a yellow spot at the tip,
then white, then yellow, then white.
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| Overwing: | teal.
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| Head: | yellow Berlin wool.
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| Note: | A late 19th century Spey pattern.
"Glen Grant" refers to a ravine near the Grant distillery,
not to a person's first and last name.
The jungle cock is a bit rumpled in this photo;
collectible flies would have them in perfect alignment.
I suspect those tiers use a bit of head cement to
insure this, but that would hinder their freedom
of movement in the water.
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