Saturday, February 12, 2022

Partridge and Orange


Partridge and Orange

or

Orange Partridge

Hook - Wet fly style

Thread - Orange silk

Hackle - Hungarian partridge

I do not own silk threads. I just substituted yellow uni stretch.

Reference

Yorkshire Trout Flies by T. E. Pritt (1885) Note – The following book is the same text, only the title was changed.

No. 32. Orange Partridge. 
Hook 1
Wings. — Hackled with a well dappled feather from a Partridge's back 
Body. — Orange silk.

North Country Flies by T.E. Pritt (1886) – Note: only the title was changed from Pritt’s Yorkshire Trout Flies published the previous year.

No. 32. Orange Partridge. 
Hook 1.
Wings. — Hackled with a well dappled feather from a Partridge's back 
Body. — Orange silk.

Brook and River Trouting by Harfield H. Edmonds and Norman N. Lee (1916)

No. 6.
Orange Partridge.
Perlidae; and Ephemeridae.
Hook 1.
Wings. — Hackled with a brown mottled (not barred) feather from a Partridge's neck, or back.
Body. — Orange silk

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