Partridge and Yellow

Partridge and Yellow

or

Yellow Partridge

Hook - Wet fly style

Thread - Yellow 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. 28. Yellow Partridge (Grey Gnat). 

Hook 1

Wings. — Hackled with a light feather from the back of a Partridge. 

Body. — Yellow silk. 

A good killer almost any time during April.

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. 28. Yellow Partridge (Grey Gnat). 

Hook 1

Wings. — Hackled with a light feather from the back of a Partridge. 

Body. — Yellow silk. 

A good killer almost any time during April.

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

No. 14.

Yellow Partridge.

PERLIDIAE and Diptera (Crane-fly).

Hook or 1.

Wings. — Hackled with a greyish feather barely tinged with brown, from a Partridge's back. 

Body. — Yellow silk, No. 4.

Head. — Yellow silk.

May to middle of June.