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
Body: Peacock herl
Rib: Gold or silver twist
Hackle: Two grey hackles
Grey Palmer 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.
Tail: Mallard, two fibres
Body: Light brown mohair, mixed with hare’s ear
Hackle: Partridge neck, or grey cock
Wing: Hen pheasant’s wing, or grey drake
The Grey Housewife from The Art of Angling by William Blacker. The one above is tied in hand on a vintage blind-eye hook, while the two below all are tied for fishing on Ahrex FW580 #10.
The combination silver/black/red is never wrong, and not so here either. Tied on a Mustad 71300 #10 with berlin wool as dubbing in the thorax. A pattern that can be changed with longer hackle or more black dubbing, depending on the river and conditions you are fishing in.
http://flypattern.org/authors/john-sand/book/patterns/pattern/husmannsflua
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