Floss Bodied Soft Hackles – the rebirth of a old favorite

Partridge & Yellow

Partridge & Yellow Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Thorax Hackle Floss Bodied Soft Hackles Floss Bodied Soft Hackles are some of the oldest fly patterns originating in Great Britain. Dame Juliana Berners wrote about the Partridge & Orange in 1496,Treatise of Fishing with an Angle.The floss bodied soft hackle patterns…

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Carey Special – once known as a monkey faced louise

Carey Special

Carey Special Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Tail Collar Ribbing Carey Special Originally called the “Monkey-faced Louise”, until receiving the name Carey Special. It was aptly named the Carey Special from its originator, Colonel (Tom) Carey of Quesnal, BC. Colonel Carey served in the British Army during WW I and…

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