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| Picket Pin |
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| H and L variant a.k.a. House and Lot featuring stripped peacock body and a peacock herl thorax |
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Peacock for dry flies and nymphs
Every fly tier and most fly fishermen know about the supposed fish-attracting powers of peacock herl. Off hand I can think of about a dozen flies that use this remarkable natural material. Here are two examples: one dry and one wet. Both of these patterns are pretty old; the Picket Pin originated in Montana around 1919 and the House and Lot first showed up in the late 1950's.
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I put peacock herl into a lot of my flies. It's just good "mojo." Thanks for the post.
ReplyDeleteMojo is the perfect word for it. That would be a good name for a fly.
ReplyDeleteThat is so cute..Mojo is the nice word for it..Thanks
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