Partridge & Rust

[Roadkill]

When I was tying at the NW Fly Tyers, several people asked me " where is your favorite place to fish?".
I responded as usual, "any place there is water". Then I clarified it with "Fishing the Firehole River swinging a Patridge and Orange". I said it is kind of magical wading the river and catching fish in the mist created by hot spots in the river.

Many years ago, there was an FF Rendezvous at Campfire Lodge and many of us fished the Firehole. John Shaner and I took top honors catching fish with our P&Os one day at Biscuit Basin. His with a gold rib and mine with a copper rib. I have repeated scored on many other places several other times with the same flies.

Tied with silk the color of the bronze hook showing through can make the body appear more brownish. I wanted to try and mimic that with hooks that are not bronze.

RIMG7389 by William Lovelace, on Flickr

Hook-Wholesale Fly Company M11 #16
Thread-UTC 70 Rusty Brown
Rib-SM Ultra Wire Copper
Hackle-Partridge

When I get back to the Firehole, I will test the 2 Partridge flies on a multiple fly cast.

[RickA]

Very nice, Bill.
I see John Shaner several times a year, last at Fly Fest in Rosco, NY less than a month ago.
he is still very active here in the Catskills and it's always a privilege to sit and talk with him.