It certainly looks buggy, which the fish will tell you, too. And it has that fish-love-it stuff called peacock herl.

To help this fly sink, I've been tying soft hackles with out tails and using various colors of ultra wire where you're using quick descent. So if it's a Partridge and Orange, it would be a Partridge and Orange Wire for me. We have good luck with orange, dark green, gold, red, black and chartreuse. Then for the thorax I like the quick descent too, but more often use ice dub in either a contrasting or coordinating color.

I caught a really nice brown on a Partridge and Green Wire on SD's Rapid Creek a few years back.