I have a full partridge skin dyed olive. My problem is that I don't recall why I bought it.
What potential wet fly patterns are candidates? (No nasty comments please. ha-ha.)
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I have a full partridge skin dyed olive. My problem is that I don't recall why I bought it.
What potential wet fly patterns are candidates? (No nasty comments please. ha-ha.)
Drake Emerger?
Blue Wing Olive Emerger?
Byron's got the right idea. They're great for BWO soft hackles.
Bob
Hammils Killer is a good NZ pattern that uses olive partridge feathers. A good damsel fly immitation. Basically, slim yellow or red wool body, black squirrel tail for the tail, then tie matched partridge feathers along the side "vertically" (should look like a little almond), usually one paired tied in mid-shank, and the others at the head. I can't find a photo of one right now, but here's a Lord's Killer (tied with Woodcock; just replace that with the olive partridge).
Am fear a chailleas a chanain caillidh e a shaoghal. -
He who loses his language loses his world.
Like me, you probably bought it because you didn't have one.Originally Posted by Ray Kunz
Worse than that is when you get home and put it away to find another one already there.
I have used olive partridge on damselfly and dragonfly nymphs. I've also used it as a front collar on Hale-Bopp type leeches.
Or even worse, 2 or 3 already there... <sigh>Like me, you probably bought it because you didn't have one.
Ed, embracing SGM more every day...
Thanks for the moral support guys. Following your hint I actually did find a recipe by Hans Weilenman for a
"Partridge and Green Emerger" that actually specifies dyed olive partridge.
I don't know what SGM is. I suffer from CRS. At least I'm not alone.
From another thread...
SGH - Sparse Gray Hackle, a fly pattern
modified to
SGM - Sparse Gray Matter, a different sort of pattern...
Ed
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