February Red (Taeniopteryx nebulosa & Brachyptera risi)

A search of modern and antiquarian UK angling literature reveals a significant list of artificial fly patterns
... identified as representing the ‘February Red’; here is just a selection:

FEBRUARY RED (Fly Patterns For the Rivers & Lakes of Wales- Moc Morgan 1984)
Hook: Size 12 & 14.
Thread: Red.
Body: Red wool.
Rib: Gold wire.
Hackle: Dark brown partridge.

FEBRUARY RED (The Art of the Wet Fly - Roger Fogg 1979)
Hook: Size 14.
Thread: Reddish claret.
Body: Reddish claret silk showing at the tail, remainder dubbed light brown seal’s fur.
Hackle: Dark grizzle dun.
Wings: Speckled hen.

FEBRUARY RED (A Book On Angling - Francis Francis 1867)
Hook: Size 14.
Thread: Orange.
Body: Two turns of dirty claret-red mohair at the tail and medium brown mohair with
a strand or two of hare’s ear and claret thrown in for the rest of the body.
Wing: A slip from the back of a peahen.
Hackle: Dark grizzled blue dun cock.

FOUR WINGED BROWN (Trout & Salmon Fishing In Wales – George Agar Hansard 1834)
Hansard describes the pattern as “sometimes called the Red Fly, the Peacock Fly, Dark Brown, Dark Claret etc.”
Hook: Size 14.
Thread: Yellow.
Body: Ruddy black sheep’s wool mingled with orange.
Rib: Yellow floss.
Hackle: Yellowish brown hen.

OLD JOAN (Trout Fishing from All Angles - Eric Taverner 1929)
This is a pattern is described as having its roots in the Llangollen area for use on the Welsh River Dee.
Hook: Size 14.
Thread: Claret.
Body: Dubbed orange seal’s fur dressed ‘rough’.
Hackle: Blue Dun.

OLD JOAN (A Dictionary of Trout Flies - Courtney Williams 1949)
This pattern is described as a Lancashire dressing.
Hook: Size 14.
Thread: Claret.
Body: Dubbed claret seal’s fur dressed ‘rough’.
Hackle: An under covert feather from a woodcock’s wing.

PARRY’S STONE FLY (Fly Patterns For the Rivers & Lakes of Wales- Moc Morgan 1984)
Hook: Size 14.
Thread: Crimson.
Body: Claret quill.
Hackle: Dark rusty dun.

PARTRIDGE & ORANGE (Fly Patterns For the Rivers & Lakes of Wales- Moc Morgan 1984)
Hook: Size 14.
Body: Orange silk.
Hackle: Brown partridge.

PEACOCK FLY (Fly Fishers Guide – G.C.Bainbridge 1840)
Hook: Size 14.
Thread: Mulberry.
Body: Dark peacock herl.
Wings: Starling tied flat over the body.
Hackle: Grizzle.
(Note: Alfred Ronalds in “The Fly Fishers Entomology 1836” provides a different
dressing for the Peacock Fly and describes it as being used as a beetle imitation).

RED FLY (The Fly Fisher’s Entomology - Alfred Ronalds 1839)
Hook: Sized 14.
Thread: Brown.
Body: Dubbed red squirrel fur mixed with an equal amount of claret seal’s fur,
showing mostly claret at the tail.
Wings: Softest feather from a pea-hens wing feather tied flat.
Legs: Dyed claret.

RED FLY (Handbook Of Angling - Edward Fitzgibbon 1847)
Hook Size 14.
Thread: Brown.
Body: Dubbed dark red squirrel fur, mixed with an equal quantity
of claret coloured seal’s fur; showing mostly claret at the tail.
Wings: From a ginger-dun covert feather of a mallard’s wing.
Hackle: Dyed claret.

RED FLY (A Concise Treatise On The Art Of Angling – Thomas Best 1808)
Hook: Size 14.
Body: Dubbed red squirrel fur.
Wings: A dark drake’s feather.
Hackle: Natural red cock.
Note; an identical pattern to this is also given by Charles Bowlker
... in his “Art Of Angling” – 1854

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