{"id":4156,"date":"2020-04-18T11:21:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T11:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2020-04-18T11:21:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T11:21:43","slug":"william-blacker-standard-flies-19-grey-drake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/2020\/04\/william-blacker-standard-flies-19-grey-drake\/","title":{"rendered":"William Blacker: Standard Flies 19. Grey Drake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/blacker_standard_flies_19_grey_drake-web-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/blacker_standard_flies_19_grey_drake-web-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/blacker_standard_flies_19_grey_drake-web-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/blacker_standard_flies_19_grey_drake-web-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/blacker_standard_flies_19_grey_drake-web-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/blacker_standard_flies_19_grey_drake-web-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/blacker_standard_flies_19_grey_drake-web-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tail<\/strong>: Mallard, three fibers <br><strong>Body<\/strong>: Rat&#8217;s back fur, mixed with yellow mohair<br><strong>Hackle<\/strong>: Grey<br><strong>Wing<\/strong>: Grey mallard<br><strong>Head<\/strong>: Peacock herl<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flypattern.org\/authors\/william-blacker\/book\/the-art-of-angling\/pattern\/grey-drake\">The Grey Drake<\/a> from The Art of Angling by William Blacker. The one above is tied in hand on a vintage blind-eye hook, while the three below all are tied for fishing on <a href=\"http:\/\/flyhooks.org\/ahrex\/fw-580-wet-fly\">Ahrex FW580<\/a> #10. Substituted rat fur with some fox underfur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/blacker_standard_flies_19_grey_drake_set-web-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/blacker_standard_flies_19_grey_drake_set-web-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/blacker_standard_flies_19_grey_drake_set-web-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/blacker_standard_flies_19_grey_drake_set-web-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/blacker_standard_flies_19_grey_drake_set-web-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/blacker_standard_flies_19_grey_drake_set-web-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/blacker_standard_flies_19_grey_drake_set-web-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tail: Mallard, three fibers Body: Rat&#8217;s back fur, mixed with yellow mohairHackle: GreyWing: Grey mallardHead: Peacock herl The Grey Drake from The Art of Angling by William Blacker. The one above is tied in hand on a vintage blind-eye hook,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[481],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-williamblacker","tag-williamblacker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4161,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions\/4161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}