Lady Caroline

Lady Caroline

contributed by Dave Kearney

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Materials

HookPartridge 3/0 Salmon Hook
ThreadBlack 8/0 or 14/0
TailGolden Pheasant Red Breast fibres
BodyOlive Green Seal Fur
RibGold Flat Tinsel, small Silver Oval Tinsel & small Gold Oval Tinsel
HackleRingneck Pheasant Rump (substitute for Heron or Blue Eared Pheasant.
ThroatGolden Pheasant Red Breast Feather
WingTwo strips of Bronze Mallard

Notes

A traditional Speyside spey pattern with a thin olive seal-fur body, long sparse pheasant hackle and a short tent-shaped mallard wing. It is fished on the swing through the water and has a following on the West Coast for Pacific salmon and steelhead.

Published in December 2013 (Vol 46 No 9), page 10.