Binns Streamer

Binns Streamer

Hook - Streamer

Thread - Black

Tail - Red over white duck or goose quills sections

Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel

Body - Flat silver tinsel (sometimes yellow wool is used)

Throat - Red and white hackle, mixed

Wing - Strip of white goose married between 2 sections of yellow goose

Shoulder - Guinea hen breast feathers

Created by Frier Guilline

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Binns Streamer

Hook - Streamer

Thread - Black

Tail - A section of a red and of a white duck or goose wing feather, rather long and thin

Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel

Body - Flat silver tinsel (sometimes yellow wool is used)

Throat - Two or three turns of a red and white saddle hackle, tied on mixed together as a collar and then tied downward

Wing - in two matched pairs, each a section of a white goose wing married between two sections of yellow goose wing, the three sections being equal in width. The wing is tied slightly longer than the tail.

Shoulder - Guinea hen breast feathers

Originated by Mr. Frier Guilline, of Fin, Fur and Feather Ltd, for Mr. J Binns in 1937. 

It was originally tied as a trout fly and was adapted as a streamer in 1940.

Streamer Fly Tying & Fishing - Joseph D Bats Jr