Nightmare Spey
Tying tips:
The tip/tag assembly is easily done if the tinsel is tied in but not wrapped until the pink Uni-Stretch is applied. Make 4 to 5 turns (depending on hook size) of the fine tinsel and spiral it onto the pink when the last turn butts up to the tag.
The first turn of medium tinsel is taken perpendicular to the hook before beginning the spiral wrap. I did this to "frame" the hot pink.
The body hackle is a product marketed as "Traditional Spey Hackle". I used white feathers colored with a Prismacolor marker (80% grey). For the heron-like effect, keep back from the stem a bit, and make the fibers progressively darker toward the tips.
The name Nightmare came to me while tinkering with different types of feathers for the wing, (some of which were not cooperating) and I rather loudly proclaimed that this idea was a "nightmare".
This is an original pattern that is as yet untested. I would greatly appreciate your thoughts and reports of "field tests".