Добрый вечер! Сейчас просмотрел ещё раз товарища Francis и его книгу A BOOK ON ANGLING, да старички зажигают, видим здесь совсем другой подход к формированию хакла, совершенно не похожий на подход Pryce Tannatt
The Purple King. Body, a light purple mohair ; hackle,
brownish black with light blue dun tip ; tinsel, gold and silver
and silver twist over hackle as before ; teal shoulder, and two
strips of grey mallard wing with brown tips. (Plate XV, Fig. 3.)
The Green King. Body, orange and olive-yellow mixed
mohair ; hackle, brown with grey tips ; the rest of the fly
as before.
For these last two patterns I am indebted to my friend
Mr. C. Grant of Aberlour. Mr. Grant very kindly furnished
me with minute particulars as to the dressing, dyeing, etc.,
and I cannot put his directions in a better form than he has
put them himself, and therefore I append his letter. In it
he describes two other flies I had not the patterns of, viz.
"the Green Dog" and " Purpy."
They are well-known
standard flies on the Spey, and may be dressed down to the
smallest size for midsummer ;
the" Black and teal"Already described will be found very hard
to beat on the Spey.
"DEAR SIR,
Agreeably to my promise, I now send you the pattern
Spey flies, viz. two
Purple Kings and one Green King, which
you will easily distinguish.
The hackles are got from the common
Scotch cock, and lie on each side of the tail, at the tip of
the wings.
The cock is rarely to be met with except with
Spey fishers, who breed them for the sake of their feathers.
The dubbing or "Grounds of the Purple King are composed
of purple (Berlin wool), stone red, dyed from the moss on stones,
and scarlet wool. The dubbing of Green King is composed
of green Berlin wool, stone red, yellow, a little orange, and
scarlet.
In spring the Purple King is of a less red colour than one
used at present. The Green King at that period is more
green, but, as the season advances, more red is used in both,
and redder feathers. I enclose some dubbing of each to fit
the present season.
Without having any prejudice against gaudy flies,
I would
prefer Purple and Green Kings with their numerous offspring,
provided I could get proper hackles to tie them, to any flies288 A BOOK ON ANGLINGthat can be used on the Spey.
The flies which I have sent you will be in size next month (July),
and I have no doubt but that they will kill upon any river in Scotland.
The dubbing of Green Dog is the same as Green King,
feather a little lighter, with gold-colour spate and pea-green
thread at equal distances on the body of the hook or fly. The
Purple, or 'Purpy/ a thirty-second cousin of the Purple King,
has a hackle somewhat redder than that of his progenitor ;
dubbing, dark blue and stone red, with gold spate and purple
thread on body of fly at equal distances."