Double White Wing Akroyd

Pattern by Charles Akroyd, 1878

(Tied on a very large hook)

Tag: silver tinsel

Tail: a topping and tippet in strands

Body: first half, light orange Seal's fur, second half black floss

Ribbing: oval silver tinsel over the Seal's fur, flat silver and twist over the floss

Hackle: a lemon hackle over the Seal's fur; a black Heron hackle over the floss (Blue Eared Pheasant dyed black subbed here)

Throat: Teal

Wing: a pair of Turkey tail strips

Cheeks: Jungle Cock (drooping)

*The body and wings are doubled in the version showed. I first saw this double version on the back cover of Judith Dunham's fine book 'The Atlantic Salmon Fly: The Tyers and Their Art'