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by Bishthefish1
Sat Nov 06, 2021 4:23 am
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Dark Spanish Needle
Replies: 13
Views: 7995

Re: Dark Spanish Needle

Since rediscovering soft hackles a few years ago, the Dark Spanish Needle is one of my go to flies early and late season. Both the river Tees and the little river Leven have good hatches of these tiny stone flies.
by Bishthefish1
Sat Oct 23, 2021 12:05 pm
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: Royal Charlie (Nathaniel Hunt)
Replies: 5
Views: 3730

Re: Royal Charlie (Nathaniel Hunt)

Those look fantastic........!
Having seen them previously in the North Country Fly, I have often thought about tying some and fishing them for autumn (fall!) grayling on my local stream.
by Bishthefish1
Tue Aug 31, 2021 5:00 am
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: Simple Pheasant soft hackle
Replies: 14
Views: 7724

Re: Simple Pheasant soft hackle

Hi David

If your lockdown flytying is anything like mine, you have months of experimentation to look forward to! Enjoy

Alistair
by Bishthefish1
Sat Aug 21, 2021 10:08 am
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: Simple Pheasant soft hackle
Replies: 14
Views: 7724

Re: Simple Pheasant soft hackle

Hi David,

Nice elegant tie there, particularly like the orange hotspot behind the hackle. Have you managed to fish it yet? If so, what were the results?

Alistair
by Bishthefish1
Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:15 am
Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
Topic: Hare's Masks
Replies: 4
Views: 3561

Re: Hare's Masks

I pick them up from my local tackle and gun store - they shoot, skin and cure their own and sell them for about £1.75 - £2.00 each. They also knock out Mallard and Teal wings for a few £'s, depending on size, a pair. In the past I have even been able to get a hold of Coot and Moorhen wings as well! ...
by Bishthefish1
Wed Jul 18, 2018 3:34 am
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: Hares Lug & Cree
Replies: 19
Views: 11026

Re: Hares Lug & Cree

Hi all Up date on this fly. Normally I am a dry fly man (I can hear the jeers and hisses across the pond!), but I have been talked into using wets again by a few of you over there and this has been a go to fly for me this season. It has worked really well during sedge / caddis fly and small stone-fl...
by Bishthefish1
Fri Apr 20, 2018 12:23 am
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Brk Trt's Peacock and Pheasant
Replies: 5
Views: 3883

Re: Brk Trt's Peacock and Pheasant

ScottP wrote:
A Spanish Needle on steroids.
And Creative........... :o
by Bishthefish1
Sun Feb 04, 2018 2:58 pm
Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
Topic: Gambels Quail
Replies: 6
Views: 5985

Re: Gambels Quail

I like them..........
by Bishthefish1
Sun Feb 04, 2018 2:55 pm
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: Hares Lug & Cree
Replies: 19
Views: 11026

Re: Hares Lug & Cree

No it is from down the sides of a rooster cape. The way it has been cut by Root River has included a few (just a few :( ) spade hackles but quite a few feathers that I guess must make up the root or base of the wing (I think they are called the scapulars?). They are quite soft for rooster hackle so ...
by Bishthefish1
Fri Feb 02, 2018 4:20 pm
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: Hares Lug & Cree
Replies: 19
Views: 11026

Re: Hares Lug & Cree

Yeah Bolly does that!