A suggestion: experiment with turkey feather fibers/barbs for a body material as a replacement for the pheasant tail fibers/barbs. The older Cate’s Turkey aptly demonstrated the material. You won’t find a suitable picture of a Cate’s Turkey online. The pattern’s body was wrapped turkey feather fibers/barbs with a partridge tail and beard (sometimes a simple, small peacock thorax). It was offered as a stillwater pattern many years ago. But, to the pattern at hand, I used two fibers/barbs cut from a turkey feather’s stem and wrapped a body on a size 14 hook. The look is equal to pheasant tail and equally or better suited for smaller hooks.
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you are so right, the patterns you see online are nowhere near the original, at least as I’m taking it. The first I saw of this was in Randall Kaufmann’s very first nymph tying book, and he talks about how Jerry Cate used to ” limit out on fat rainbows” on lakes, somewhere up in Oregon,perhaps the Cascades? You are just about dead on with your pattern. From what I recall & looking at a few I tied, there was lemon woodduck (dyed mallard is common) tail, turkey feather body, gold wire rib, peacock thorax, and same lemon /mallard beard. I suspect it was too involved a tie for modern tyers and so has been modified. (how often do you see a Henryville Special ties these days? Only in the Catskills.) But here’s my thought, any time you start using dubbing rather than wrapping a feather you can easily end up over-dressed. Randall used to say “it’s almost impossible to be too sparse” & he’s right. Just had to comment because it’s nice to see someone get it right, and you’re also correct that you can’t find a true original on the web.
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