About the Orange Quill Trout Fly

G E M Skues is often given credit for orange quill, it is suggested that he in fact popularized this splended pattern by his discovery of its effectiveness as an unlikely imitation of the blue winged olive. When days are warm and mild with little or no wind the dun will escape the shoreline vegetation and hatch yet again into the orange spinner where dry flies like the Orange quill will imitate them well

Expert Tip:

The Orange Quill represents the sherry spinner.In my experence trout take it better than Halford's spinner, but it may be that it also represents one of the smaller sedges in their eyes, and so serves a double purpose. Alfred Roland. 1836

Creator of this trout fly: Anon

Tier of this trout fly: Mandy Shelvey

Country of origin for this trout fly: England

Dressings

• Hook : 12 - 16
• Thread : Orange
• Tail : Orange hackle fibres
• Body : Quill dyed orange
• Wing : Starling
• Hackle : Orange or Red or Ginger Cock

The body dressing was originally pale condor quill stripped. Partridge L3B Capatin Hamilton Dry Fly Up Eye