Partridge and Pearsall's ..........Pick a Color
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2024 1:55 pm
I'm off work today for the Federal holiday. It was a brutal 2 degrees again here this AM in Central Oklahoma. Wanted to get some time at the vise, which lately has been far too infrequent, before watching our 13-year-old granddaughter play basketball this afternoon.
I thought I would pull some feathers from a partridge skin or 2 and just use some different colors of Pearsall's Gossamer. Colors are #5 Yellow (Lemon), #6a Light Orange (Gold), #16 Olive, and #35 Salmonberry. I added a thread rib and a thorax, because I just really like that look! For the thorax, I used either peacock herl or fur dubbing; tan or olive hare's ear or a Tups blend (on the Salmonberry). Most of the partridge is "brown phase", but I did use some "gray phase" with the olive thread and peacock thorax.
Hooks are all Capt Hamilton medium weight wet fly (L2A) in size 12.
Ken
I thought I would pull some feathers from a partridge skin or 2 and just use some different colors of Pearsall's Gossamer. Colors are #5 Yellow (Lemon), #6a Light Orange (Gold), #16 Olive, and #35 Salmonberry. I added a thread rib and a thorax, because I just really like that look! For the thorax, I used either peacock herl or fur dubbing; tan or olive hare's ear or a Tups blend (on the Salmonberry). Most of the partridge is "brown phase", but I did use some "gray phase" with the olive thread and peacock thorax.
Hooks are all Capt Hamilton medium weight wet fly (L2A) in size 12.
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