Exe Fly

Hook:		14-16
Thread:		Primrose
Body:		Rear third, primrose tying silk; front two-thirds, cock pheasant tail
Hackle:		Furnace
		In the third edition of Modern Fly Dressing (1950), Roger Woolley includes the Exe Fly under the “Devon and West Country Wet Flies” heading. He dresses it: “Body.—One-third at tail end straw-coloured floss, remainder formed of cock pheasant tail fibres. Hackle.—Furnace cock.” The fly's name suggests origins with anglers on the River Exe in Devon.