John,
My interpretation is that its an old style fly being dressed so heavily
I think its made up like this from what I can see of the pics.
Tag: Black Flos and Oval silver tinsel
Tip: Black fur( seal?) and yellow fur (seal again?)
Tail: GP Topping and Mallard
Butt: Ostrich and Peacock herl
Body: Silver tinsell
Thorax: Peacock herl
The WINGS: Married Red and Yellow swan or goose, Golden Pheasant tippet, GP
Red breast and yellow breast,mallard and possibly a bit of guinea fowl too.
Hackles look like GP red breast and yellow breast
Side feathers look like they were GP again and as Joyce says could be church
window feathers.
They could be a sort of variant on the Grey Ghost type patterns
The Horns look like mallard.

As for a name for this fly? Well the closest I can see in my books are
carrying fur or floss bodies.
These include the Black Ranger (wrong materials !!) although the Doctor
range have tinsel bodies!
White and Helmsdale Doctors are close but............and a plate in one book
shows a fly called a LION
which has a similar hook and possibly the same dressing style!!!!
So no help there unless its a variant as already suggested. Dont think its a
Peter Ross though Murf.
The PR is just a silver body with a red seals fur thorax and Mallard wing.
MUSTARD fry pattern here
in the UK.


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