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Partridge and Green

Wet Fly · Trout · Grayling · Beginner · 2 versions

Classic Recipe

  • Hook Standard wet fly, 12-16
  • Thread Green 8/0

Materials

  • Body Green silk or floss (slender)
  • Hackle Partridge back feather (1-2 wraps)
  • Rib Fine gold wire (optional)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the wet-fly hook and start green thread. Wrap a thread-thin green silk or floss body from the bend to the 80% mark, keeping it slender.
  2. Optional: spiral 4 turns of fine gold wire forward over the body for a rib and tie off.
  3. Tie in a partridge back feather by the tip at the front of the body.
  4. Take 1-2 turns of the partridge (countable fibers only, this is a spider) then sweep the fibers back and lock with two thread wraps.
  5. Form a tiny neat head, whip finish and add a touch of cement.

Substitutions

  • Body instead of Green silk or floss: Green thread wraps — Simplest body; Green dubbing (sparse) — Adds slight texture
  • Hackle instead of Partridge back feather: Hen hackle (brown) — Softer alternative; Starling — Very soft, smaller fly sizes; Brahma hen — Natural barring pattern

Other versions

1 more in the app: Classic Recipe (2).

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