Shooting season is in full swing around here , when passing the local butcher and game dealer the hooks above the window displayed a fly tyers delight. Pheasants, French Partridge and Red Grouse. A pair of each for the pricely sum of £12 . Now one pair of the Pheasants looked very nice, long tails and lovely church window hackles , thoughts of PTN and bracken clock. The Red Grouse lots of flies here those lovely mottled feathers look very spiderish. Those Grouse series of sea trout flies. The French Partridge not as good as the english but I am sure they will have their uses those nice barred feathers look good so do the little dark neck hackles...So money changed hands.....
Next the birds were skinned and left to dry a while. Then the skins will be frozen for a few days before been trimmed and cleaned up then treated witha little borax,
Of course you cant waste what comes inside the beautiful feather wrapping so the pheasant legs will be added to a yuletide casserole and the breast meat from all the birds will go into a christmas game pie. Best £12 I have spent all year...
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