Soft-Hackles

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Re: Soft-Hackles

Post by Mataura mayfly » Sun Jan 03, 2016 3:40 pm

I like them and will take a dozen of each in #14 and a dozen of each in #16!
Kind of old meets new and flymph meets North Country spider.
They look like a good heavy wire hook, what type and size are they?
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Re: Soft-Hackles

Post by letumgo » Sun Jan 03, 2016 4:15 pm

John - Excellent set of flies. I like the proportions you've used. How are you forming the taper of the bodies? That's a nice touch.

Nicely photographed too.
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Re: Soft-Hackles

Post by William Anderson » Sun Jan 03, 2016 7:11 pm

John, it's an interesting approach and should be very productive. Definitely an active little nymph profile and attractive colors. Great little set of softies.
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Re: Soft-Hackles

Post by Old Hat » Mon Jan 04, 2016 1:11 pm

Nicely done John! Thinking out of the box and still retaining that style and simplistic nature of the originals.
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Re: Soft-Hackles

Post by Roadkill » Tue Jan 05, 2016 12:14 pm

Very nice flies but looking at your specimens I would try a longer dark dun hackle with a heavier banded body. The natural duns have wings easily longer than the body and that nymph is a stout little guy. ;)
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Re: Soft-Hackles

Post by letumgo » Sat Jan 09, 2016 11:44 am

WOW!!! Those are fantastic John. Could you post a close up go the fly?

That dubbing is a treasure. I think I have a small piece, from Fran Betters, around here someplace. I met him in his shop many years ago. He sat tying rough flies, one after another, as he talked to me.
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Re: Soft-Hackles

Post by hankaye » Sat Jan 09, 2016 2:52 pm

WiFlyfisher, Howdy;

There are some Flymph threads in SBS section, think they may help with some of your questions.
Here's an example; http://flymphforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=3937

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Re: Soft-Hackles

Post by NeoDoc » Sat Jan 09, 2016 3:16 pm

On a light dry fly hook - would be a good Tenkara dry fly
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Re: Soft-Hackles

Post by Smuggler » Sat Jan 09, 2016 8:15 pm

That's a good fly.
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Re: Soft-Hackles

Post by William Anderson » Tue Jan 12, 2016 9:47 am

NeoDoc wrote:On a light dry fly hook - would be a good Tenkara dry fly
That's a good point. There are a lot of possibilities here. That deep rusty dubbing would make some sweet Oct. caddis bodies as well.

John, thanks for sharing so much of your process hunting down the technique. If you don't mind a suggestion, the Hendricksons I see most often have a fairly sturdy medium dun wing, often longer than the body and a bit more robust, as far as wings go. That's not to say when creating an imitation you're always looking at proportions of parts and pieces as your guide. Sometimes you want to imitate the attitude of the wing/leg, amount of action or movement - the more relaxed vs aggressive action of the materials (drowned vs struggling).

Keep rocking the flymphs, man, these are great and I'd like to see more of what you're up to.

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