Description
The Peute by Marco Feliciani
In this video, I tie Marco Feliciani’s version of the Peute, one of the best-known flies in the French fly-tying tradition.
The Peute is associated with Henri Bresson, the “Wizard of Vesoul.” Its name means “ugly” in the local Franche-Comté dialect, but this simple, impressionistic fly has earned a lasting reputation on the water. Rather than copying one specific insect, it can suggest a vulnerable insect in or near the surface film.
The traditional dressing is wonderfully simple: yellow tying thread and a feather from a female mallard, often described as a breast feather. The feather’s soft fibres give the fly its distinctive, slightly untidy shape. Dressings can vary, and it can be fished wet or close to the surface.
I hope you enjoy this look at a classic French pattern.
If you tie the Peute, let me know which version you use and how you fish it.
All the very best,
Davie