Big Diamond Streamer Tied by Don Bastian
Tail:          Red duck wing feather
Body:        Medium flat silver tinsel (Leonard uses gold tinsel, no rib)  
Rib:           Narrow oval silver tinsel (optional)
Throat:      Greenish-blue bucktail and guinea hen fibers (Leonard uses only blue bucktail)
Wing:        Two bright yellow flanked by golden badger saddle hackles
Horns:       Red swan feather fibers
Shoulder:   Brown barred mandarin duck 
Cheeks:      Jungle cock (optional)
Note:        Created by Frank Congdon.
Source:      Bates, J. (1950, 1966, 1995) Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing, p. 226; 
                 Stewart, D. and Leeman, B. (1982) Trolling Flies for Trout and Salmon, p. 94; 
                 Leonard, J.E. (1950, 1982) Flies, p. 261
     
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