Donne Flye

This dressing applies partridge as a hackle rather dressing it as  "wyngis."

Hook:		12-18
Thread:		Tan
Abdomen:		Natural dun wool, in this instance the raw fleece of the New Zealand Romney breed
Hackle:		Gray partridge from the shoulders or back Dame Julianna Berners, the nun who published A treatyse of fysshynge wyth an Angle in 1496, originally described the Donne Flye as a universally effective pattern or, at the very least, an early spring, pre-April fly. Berner’s dressing calls for “the body of the donne woll & the wyngis of the pertryche.” The natural dun wool from the New Zealand Romney that I used here is currently available from The FibreMine, an online shop at Etsy.