Hends BL599 size 14 hook. UTC 70 purple thread. Body of thread ribbed with single fibre of cock pheasant tail. Essential the purple body shows through. Whiting Brahma medium dun hen hackle. [Note – my tying is based on the Herefordshire Alder created by Canon C F Eagles, who fished the Herefordshire/Shropshire rivers in the early 1900s]
