It's embarrassing but...

[fflutterffly]

I've been looking over the internet for a fly to add to the swap. I'd like to tie a Grey Watchet but have no idea what a Watchet is! This is not an April Fools question. Please direct me to where I can learn this information.
Thank you.

[Mataura mayfly]

I am sure nobody will mind me linking this, seeing as how it is a pattern from one of our own fine members.......

http://www.flytyingforum.com/pattern9228.html

But if I have done wrong..... please feel free to remove the link.

Also known as "Grey Partridge" pattern in some publications.

[redietz]

I'd like to tie a Grey Watchet but have no idea what a Watchet is! This is not an April Fools question.

The word "watchet" is north-country dialect for "light blue". I've never understood how there can be a Dark Watchet, but there is.

[fflutterffly]

So does the hackle have a lightish blue tinge or does the Watchet refer to the ?

[Mataura mayfly]

The Dark Watchet is meant to represent an imitation of the Iron Blue Dun- so perhaps that is the "blue" reference?

[Mataura mayfly]

That and the Jackdaw throat feather used for the hackle is supposedly "smoky blue"

[Ruard]

Hi Ariel,

I found the following about Watchet in The book: A Handbook of North Country Trout Flies by mister Roger Fogg:





This is the same confusion as in Blue Dun or Waterhen Bloa: bloa and blue is the same as dark grey something like a cloud with much rain in it or something like the underfur of a rabbit.

Greeting

Ruard