Pete,
The original pattern in Marbury had duck quill wings. Picture is in
WIkipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Coachman
Personally, I don't think it makes any difference.
Al
On 11/5/12 3:32 PM, Peter Gramp wrote:
So I have the day off and when I sat down at my vise to tie up 6 dozen
Royal Coachmen dry flies in various sizes to restock my nearly empty
flyboxes, I thought I knew the pattern by heart. Then I glanced over
at the "Benchside Reference" and on the cover is what looks to be a
royal coachman with calf tail wings... not with the duck quill slip
wings that I originally thought. I tried looking up the pattern on
google and in YouTube, but what I found was that about half of the
recipes and/or pictures said upright quill wings, and the other half
said calf tail upright. So I'm curious, what should the wings be for
this pattern? I'm sure that either would work for catching trout, but
I'm curious what the original pattern called for. (the calf tail
wings remind me more of a Wulff than a Coachman, for what it is worth,
but what do I know) For such a famous pattern, you would think that
the recipe would be the same from one website source to another, but
that's not what I found.
Any help would be great!
-Pete
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