The Snipe and Orange North Country Fly tied on a Alec Jackson size 13 hook.
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Snipe flies.
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#2Nice,never understood the odd hook numbers,i have some 11s 13s and i think 15s.Orvis and partridge i believe.Hook sizes are kind of arbitrary at best as it is.
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#3Beautiful in its simplicity, and what appears to me anyway, a frugality in technique - a very good thing.
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#4That snipe appears to have some of it's own orange coloration in the photo Tom. Lovely stuff! It has a liveliness beyond grouse or partridge.
...a wink of gold like the glint of sunlight on polished cane...
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#5Thank you Mark! The Snipe wing is a beatiful feather to tie with! The under covert feathers of light dun tipped with a sparkle and the over covert feathers with their earthy colors are gems. The primaries are used in many North Country Flies as wings and also a few dries as well. Such as this Hoflands Fancy found in J. Edson Leonard's book Flies.
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