Not everyone has all the resource materials they desire when it comes to reproducing historical salmon patterns. For your consideration the following is quoted directly from A Book on Angling by Francis Francis, 1920 edition edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell.

THE DOCTOR. This is a very general and deserved favourite. Commencing, then, at the bend of the hook, tie in as a tag three or four turns of fine gold twist. Tail, a single gold pheasant topping, over this a turn of scarlet crewel; body, pale blue floss silk, with hackle a shade or two darker, wound on from tail to head (this varied at times with blue jay's feather); silver tinsel (in large flies of all kinds the tinsel may be rendered more conspicuous by the addition of some twist wound on beside it). At the shoulder a brown grouse, partridge, or bustard hackle may be wound on; a blue jay is sometimes used over the blue hackle. The wing is a mixed wing, containing fibres of bustard, dark turkey, argus pheasant, and claret, blue and yellow fibres of stained swan feathers, the latter predominating. In smaller flies mallard and pintail are introduced. The head is of scarlet crewel.

THE PARSON. This is a very showy fly, and is used chiefly on the Erne, but it is a capitol fly anywhere where a showy fly is required. It is on the Erne rather a generic name for a series of flies than for any special one, as we have there, green parsons, and blue parsons, and golden parsons, and so on. The parson being merely significant of plenty of toppings in the wing. The Golden Parson, however, is my idea of the. fly, and this I will describe.

Tag, silver tinsel and mauve floss; tail, two toppings, a few sprigs of tippet and a kingfisher; body, two turns of golden floss silk, then golden pig's wool, merging into orange; golden orange hackle over the wool, red-orange hackle over that, and two or three or more short toppings tied in at the breast, instead of a shoulder hackle; wing, a tippet feather with a cock of the rock (not the squared feather) on either side, and as many toppings as you can pile on--seven or eight or more if you like. These are often tied on the turn bent inwards at Ballyshannon, and it gives them more play in the water. Kingfisher's feathers on either cheek, and blue macaw ribs; black head. This, however, is decidedly a topping parson, a sort of bishop or archbishop parson, in fact, and not for everyday use; we only bring him out when the feelings of the salmon, having resisted all ordinary persuasiveness, require to be very strongly appealed to. But if you substitute a golden olive hackle, with a medium claret above that, and blue jay at shoulder, and reduce the number of toppings, and tie into the wing a couple of gold pheasant saddle feathers over the tippet feather, a capitol working parson, a sort of curate, is produced, fit for hard every-day work.

Mr. Maxwell very kindly subsequently sent me the following: Add to the Minnick flies for a low bright water the following, known as the 'Dusty Miller.

Tag, silver tinsel, dark olive floss; tail, one topping; butt, black ostrich; body, embossed silver timsel (sic), gold thread; dark olive hackle, gallina at shoulder; wing, gold pheasant tail, mallard, teal, green parrot and lavender swan, jungle cock at cheek; head black.