To my mind one of the most beautiful flies around and the description of "..It is the golden fly, both in colour and quality..." is particularly apt.
The modern tie does away with the seal or mohair body and is replaced by the yellow chenille. Red and Green are also favoured colours. Also the modern tie does away with the GP topping - an obvious indication of the ancestry of New Zealand streamer patterns being old UK seat trout and salmon flies. I still retain the JC eye on the "modern" style as I think they add an awful lot to this and other streamers. The modern tie would have red or orange cock tail fibres rather than GP tippets. The rib is gold tinsel, you could use silver if you desire.
The pattern calls for "well marked honey grizzle feathers" although some prefer paler feathers like these.
The hook is a Mustad 3666 which was been an old stock standard streamer hook down here for decades until more modern hooks came on the market. I still use them as they seem to just fit Matuku style patterns.
