Iain-I was sure you would be able to help me. I really appreciate the
patterns and now I can get to work. Now unconfused I will retreat back under
my rock.Thanks .Dail Graham/MO
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From: iain short
To: VFB-new
Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 1:59 AM
Subject: [VFB] Greenwells Glory Variations
Pearsalls silk is specified because it changes colour when wet while modern
synthetic threads do not. Same applies to all the old silk thread/silk floss
bodied flies - partridge orange, snipe purple etc ... you will catch more
fish using silk
Greenwells Glory (Veniard)
Hook: 10-16 down eyed
Thread: Primrose Pearsalls Silk well waxed with cobbler's wax (Try solid
block beeswax)
Tail: Light Furnace cock
Body: Tying silk
Rib: Fine gold wire
Hackle: Light Furnace cock
Wing: Darkest starling or hen blackbird
Greenwells Glory (W.H.Lewrie)
Hook: 10-16 down eyed
Body: Primrose Pearsalls Silk well waxed with cobbler's wax ribbed with fine
gold wire
Hackle: Dark Furnace Hen
Wing: Hen blackbird
Greenwells Glory (Francis Francis)
Hook: 7-12 down eyed
Body: Dark olive silk well waxed with cobbler's wax (Try solid block beeswax)
Rib: Fine gold wire
Hackle: Small dark Coch-y-bonddhu
Wing: Woodcock
Greenwells Glory (Skews)
Hook: 14-16 down eyed
Tail: three fibers as hackle
Body: Primrose Pearsalls Silk waxed with clear wax ribbed with fine gold
wire
Hackle: Greenish yellow-olive cock
Wing: Pale to dark starling
Greenwells Glory (Tweedside pattern) (also Edmonds Lee)
Hook:14 down eyed
Body: Primrose Pearsalls Silk well waxed with cobbler's wax ribbed with fine
gold wire
Hackle: Coch-y-bonddhu
Wing: Hen blackbird tied in a bunch and split
Greenwells Nymph (Roberts)
Hook: 10-16 down eyed
Tail: Coch-y-bonddhu
Body: Primrose Pearsalls Silk well waxed with cobbler's wax ribbed with fine
gold wire
Thorax: Grey or blue-grey dubbing
Wing case: Grouse hackle with the tips turned down as legs
Greenwells Spider
Hook: 12-16 down eyed
Body: Primrose Pearsalls Silk well waxed with cobbler's wax ribbed with fine
gold wire
Hackle: Coch-y-bonddhu tied swept back to reach point of hook
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