Heavy Hackled Olive & Partridge

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Heavy Hackled Olive & Partridge

Post by DUBBN » Sun Mar 05, 2023 3:53 pm

Size 14
Hare and Squirrel mix
Mylar Tinsel
Partridge




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A few Euro Nymphs

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Re: Heavy Hackled Olive & Partridge

Post by FlyFisherMann1955 » Sun Mar 05, 2023 4:04 pm

Wayne,

Are your partridge feathers dyed olive or are they just picking up an olive
color from the body when you took the photo?

Thanks- Ken
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Re: Heavy Hackled Olive & Partridge

Post by DUBBN » Sun Mar 05, 2023 4:26 pm

FlyFisherMann1955 wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 4:04 pm Wayne,

Are your partridge feathers dyed olive or are they just picking up an olive
color from the body when you took the photo?

Thanks- Ken
Ken, some are Olive, some Golden Olive, and you cant see it, but Brown as well.
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Re: Heavy Hackled Olive & Partridge

Post by Roadkill » Sun Mar 05, 2023 8:02 pm

Love the SH, should work well as a Green Drake! 8-)
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Re: Heavy Hackled Olive & Partridge

Post by DOUGSDEN » Sun Mar 05, 2023 10:04 pm

Wayne,
I dunno.....Yea, maybe a bit full but still very fishable! It seems the dubbing is kind of an extension of the hackle collar or vice versa! They meld into one happy, fluffy looking gem!
I like it! Try soaking them (fishing them actually)! It should collapse nicely and still maintain the shape of a water born insect!
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Re: Heavy Hackled Olive & Partridge

Post by DUBBN » Sun Mar 05, 2023 10:47 pm

Doug, they are meant to be full. Over hackled. When the caddis start to emerge and the water is slightly stained, this type of pattern will make it easy for a trout to find it.

Even as a dropper on a Euro rig, or cast upstream, high in the water column, these will move fish, just as bushy as can be.
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Re: Heavy Hackled Olive & Partridge

Post by Ron Eagle Elk » Mon Mar 06, 2023 8:52 am

Wayne, When I read the title I was picturing something that was grossly overhackled. What you have pictures of doesn't fit the bill at all for me. That hackle fits the fly perfectly, at least to me. There's nothing about the fly I don't like, except I don't have any tied up yet. I can see a big trout leaving his hide to gulp that fly.

The nymphs look deadly as well.

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Re: Heavy Hackled Olive & Partridge

Post by Fishnkilts » Sat Mar 11, 2023 1:15 pm

I like it, Wayne. Very buggy and yet kind of a small streamer look to it to cover both worlds.

Well done.
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Re: Heavy Hackled Olive & Partridge

Post by letumgo » Sun Mar 12, 2023 9:32 am

Wayne - Do you ever treat these flies with floatant, or generally fish them as-is? I'd be tempted to fish them treated, in the surface film.

I'm going to have to dig thru my old materials to see where I put those bags of dyed loose partridge hackle. I believe I have a couple colors stashed away somewhere.

Thanks for the reminder.
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