Continuing on the Mustad patterns I went through all the Jungle-Cock variants (7 in all) and tied up these on Mustad 73100 #10 and added them to the Mustad catalogue on flypattern.org
The original images are a bit blurry, but with a little help from a couple of books these should represent something close to the original Mustad patterns
A couple days ago I published a Mustad catalogue with a extensive list of patterns, the pattern illustrations was scanned and added to flypattern.org
The patterns are at times blurry, and the scan doesn’t do them justice, so I’ve started tying up some of the patterns and photograph them for the site.
I’m not saying that I’ll do all 339 patterns, but we’ll see…. I’ll do parts of them on and off going forward, and then we’ll see what happens. Today was a set of 6 different zulu patterns. See them all on flypattern.org
flypattern.org have been a place to gather up the patterns from classic books, trying to preserve the historic fly-patterns from the earlier days of flytying history. The intention have always been to start on other sources and ensure that important fly-pattern lists are gathered in one place, and today I have added a new and important one!
Mustad have defined a lot when it comes to fly/fishing hooks (see the Mustad listing on flyhooks.org), but they have also a long tradition of selling flies. The names and numbers when referring to the old Mustad patterns haven’t been readily available, but a while back I stumbled over a old catalogue that showed itself to include a very comprehensive list of Mustad fly ID/pattern names.
The catalogue is now scanned, and all the patterns illustrated in the catalogue (339 of them), are now available on flypattern.org: https://flypattern.org/authors/mustad/book/catalogue-trout-salmon-lit
You can expand and see the entire catalogue there, or download the PDF from the site (note: the PDF is 33MB and might take a while if you are on a slow network).
The 339 patterns in the catalogue that are illustrated are registered as patterns on the site with a closer look at each individual pattern. The remaining pattern names can be found in the individual plates that are scanned and showed on the site (I might create a page with all the patterns that are not illustrated later on, but not right now)
The quality of the pictures are not top-notch due to the source I had to work with, but they should give you a good indication on the pattern and how it should look like. I have not started writing up the material-list for each pattern, that is something for a very rainy day (and week….). For now the list is up and I hope it can be a good reference to you all!
Body: Cinnamon brown mohair
Hackle: Red or cinnamon
Wing: Woodcock wing
Whirling Brown from The Art of Angling by William Blacker. The one above is tied in hand on a vintage blind-eye hook, while the three below all are tied for fishing on Ahrex FW580 #10.
Body: Brown mohair
Hackle: Small red
Pismire from The Art of Angling by William Blacker. The one above is tied in hand on a vintage blind-eye hook, while the three below all are tied for fishing on Ahrex FW580 #10.
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