In case you haven't noticed all of us at Blue Ribbon Flies love tying and fishing soft hackles. Not only are they easy to tie and relaxing to fish they some of the prettiest flies on the planet. Bucky set out to create a fall soft hackle that would rival his world famous Lucky Bucky. He came up with this simple twist on an old standard. We began fishing the new Partridge and Ice during the first part of the fall pre-spawning season in early September and by the end of the Yellowstone Park fishing season we were convinced that this beautiful new pattern works like magic for browns and rainbows whether fishing the late season on the Madison, Snake, Lewis, Henry's Fork, Yellowstone, Bighorn or Missouri and, it is easy to tie! Our field tester and hardcore Cody angler, Spence Benoit, found this to be a great soft hackle for where ever he fished fall run brown trout and we're confident you will too.