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Grey Heron 2
as per Pryce-Tannatt
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| | Hook: | Partridge Bartleet Supreme CS10/2 #2/0.
| | Rib: | 5 turns of wide flat silver tinsel,
with fine oval silver tinsel
and fine oval gold tinsel on either side.
| | Butt: | Lemon Berlin wool for 1/5 total body length.
| | Body: | black Berlin wool.
| | Hackle: | European grey heron.
| | Collar: | guinea.
| | Wing: | bronze mallard, tented, horizontal style.
| | Head: | black.
| | Note: | A classic Spey River fly, surely over 150 years old.
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Fly tied and photographed by R. J. Brown.
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