Partridge and Orange

Partridge and Orange recipe

What the Partridge and Orange imitates

• Soft hackle / North Country spider / flymph / wet fly

Where the Partridge and Orange came from

• Described by J. Wells, 1842, Wharfedale, Yorkshire. Partridge back feather, yellow body early/late season, light orange otherwise; earliest vault form of the fly.Source: Wells, The Contemplative and Practical Angler (1842), p.44 No.5 'Partridge Fly'
• Described by T.E. Pritt, 1885, Yorkshire. Pritt calls it practically the same fly as the Brown Watchet and equates it with Ronalds' Turkey Brown.Source: Pritt, Yorkshire Trout Flies (1885), p.32 No.32 'Orange Partridge'
• Described by Edmonds & Lee, 1916, North Country England. Listed as Orange Partridge, fished March to mid-May.Source: Edmonds & Lee, Brook and River Trouting, Table I No.6 & dressing p.17-19
• Originated by unknown, North Country England. Traditional North Country spider; no inventor named in any vault source.Source: Pritt, Yorkshire Trout Flies (1885), p.32 No.32

Where sources tell it differently, each account is listed with its own source.

Inside the vault every material on this fly opens to its own card, and you can save the fly to your own boxes.