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Welsh Partridge
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 12:25 pm
by tie2fish
Taking a break from "technical" spiders, here's a variation on a pattern that Fogg says came from Wales. Lacking true claret seal and hen hackle, I've dressed this fly using firey brown instead, so the result is more reddish-brown than the original reddish-purple shade.
Hook: 10-14 (Daiichi 1550, #12)
Thread: Claret tying silk (Pearsall's Gossamer #14)
Hackle: A double hackle of brown speckled partridge back and firey brown hen (partridge nearest the eye)
Rib: Small gold oval braid tinsel
Body: Firey brown seal

Re: Welsh Partridge
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 1:52 pm
by willowhead
That may be the classiest, scruffy lookin' fly i've ever seen................

Re: Welsh Partridge
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 2:47 pm
by William Anderson
That's a really smart composition. It's nice the way the two hackles worked out. Very nicely done.
Re: Welsh Partridge
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:21 pm
by hankaye
t2f, Howdy;
That, along with all the others that you have tyed so far, are fantastic !
Were I Mr. Fogg, I would feel truly honored...
hank
Re: Welsh Partridge
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:32 pm
by narcodog
That is an outstanding design..
Re: Welsh Partridge
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:34 pm
by DNicolson
Very nice result, there are some interesting variations of
the 'March Brown' in Courtney Williams Trout Dictionary.
He gives several regional variations for the UK, as well as,
if I remember rightly a couple for NZ and Aussie.
If they are winged they can easily be modified as Spider/Flymphs.
Re: Welsh Partridge
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:48 pm
by letumgo
Bill - brilliant, as usual.
Re: Welsh Partridge
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 9:28 pm
by DOUGSDEN
Bill,
Thank you for this beautiful pattern and the others that are forthcoming!! This pattern is soo dog-goned buggy! I'm going back and look for more of your goodies!
Dougs-cooler than it's been for several weeks now-den