French Partridge impulse buy

[teachmarkey]

Howdy!

Bought a French partidge skin that was too cheap to pass up on Ebay. Only one problem: I, errr... don't know what to tie with it.
Tried Googling "french partidge fly" and didn't get far; same with youtube.

Any recipes, photos, or videos would be appreciated!

Hugh

[AlanB]

There is the French Partridge Mayfly Where it is wound as the head hackle in front of a palmered hackle. Other than that I can't think of others. Its not a widely used feather, and isn't a substitute for the English Partridge. You could use it for the veiling on dabbler style flies.
Cheers,
A.

[martinwestbeek]

L'assassine. Great fly!

[Mark Vendon]

If you go over to Hans Weilenmanns site and type in French Partridge in the search box there, quite a few patterns come up.

Regards,
Mark

[redietz]

As others have mentioned, English and Irish Mayfly (what we would call a Green Drake) wet flies often call for it.

The smaller feathers are great for olive soft hackles.

The French Partridge is similar to the Chukar partridge; you might also want to look for patterns using that.

[Donald Nicolson]

Some excellent advice has been given above.
The wings supply very nice soft hackles of a brown olive colour.
If you de-grease them, they can be coloured with water-proof felt-tip pens.
The wings are very cheap from Cookshill http://www.cookshill-flytying.co.uk/

[teachmarkey]

I agree with your assessment, Donald. I've been very interested in the responses everyone has given, and I'm looking forward to tying some of the ideas.

Hugh