Downeaster
Hook - Single salmon
Thread - Black
Tip - Lower half, oval silver tinsel; the upper half, fluorescent red floss
Tail - Golden pheasant crest feather
Butt - Black ostrich herl
Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel
Body - Silver gray floss
Hackle - Orange tied on as a collar and tied back and down
Wing - Black moose hair tied low over the body
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Côte Bleue - Blue Coast
Hook - Single salmon
Thread - Red
Tip - Wrapped with fine red plastic tubing
Tail - Golden pheasant crest feather
Ribbing - Fine blue plastic tubing
Body - Flat silver tinsel
Wing - Gray fox guard hair tied low over the body
Hackle - Dark blue hen hackle tied on as a collar and tied back
Cheeks - Jungle cock eyes or substitute
Denys Poirier of Montreal, Canada, originated this pattern in 1985.
The plastic tubing is the insulation on telephone wires. I used red and blue beading cord.
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Bloody Mary
Hook - Single salmon
Thread - Black
Tip - Oval gold tinsel
Tail - Amherst pheasant crest feather
Ribbing - Oval gold tinsel
Body - Dubbed with black lamb's wool
Hackle - Scarlet red tied on as a collar and tied back and down
Wing: Red calf tail tied low over the body
Topping - Golden pheasant crest feather
Cheeks - Jungle cock eyes or substitute
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