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- Mon Apr 11, 2016 8:33 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Getting the Hackle Length Correct
- Replies: 11
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Getting the Hackle Length Correct
i have seen a number of beautiful flies with partridge soft hackle. My experience is that if it is close to the dimensions the fish don't mind. However, I love the symmetry of a row of flies with the hackle looking like it is measure perfect. What skills, ideas, talents or tricks do you find to aid ...
- Thu Mar 24, 2016 3:47 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Red Wire Soft Hackle
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5513
Re: Red Wire Soft Hackle
That is a nice looking fly. I immediately started dreaming of trying these out on brook trout. I bet they would go crazy for them. I bet you're right. I have a load of wire bodied softies in my boxes and they often do very well. This one is quite bold, but I know that can be productive in some situ...
- Fri Jan 01, 2016 10:21 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Mini Muddler
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7991
Re: Mini Muddler
It may have been posted by Mark Libertone (sp?)
- Fri Jan 01, 2016 1:45 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Mini Muddler
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7991
Mini Muddler
Several years ago I saw a mini-muddler in this site I can no longer find it The link has been taken down Does anyone have suggestions on how to tie a mini-muddler in a 16 or 18?
- Tue Oct 06, 2015 10:28 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Starling, Purple and Gold
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4577
Starling, Purple and Gold
Thread: Purple Silk
Wing Bud: Golden Pheasant Crest
Hackle: Starling
Just trying a little attraction to the normal Starling and Purple. The photo is a bit large for the window
- Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:53 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Nymphs
- Topic: Salmonfly Nymph
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10318
Re: Salmonfly Nymph
Eric's tie sounds big, but not for that part of the country. One of the first times I fished the Snake my friend handed me a stonefly nymph to tie on. It was black, about the size of my thumb and weigh as much as a small pocket knife. We floated them down underneath log jams, fallen trees or up and ...
- Mon Mar 30, 2015 2:55 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Nymphs
- Topic: Hydropsyche Larvae First Attempt at Macro Photography
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3589
Hydropsyche Larvae First Attempt at Macro Photography
This is my first attempt at macro photography. I will fix the background and light shadow problems for future posts.
Hook: Tiemco 2302 #14
Thread: Black 8/0
Abdomen: Caddis Green Turkey Biot
Thorax: Black UV Ice Dub
Hackle: Mearns Quail Feather
Head: Thread
Hook: Tiemco 2302 #14
Thread: Black 8/0
Abdomen: Caddis Green Turkey Biot
Thorax: Black UV Ice Dub
Hackle: Mearns Quail Feather
Head: Thread
- Tue Feb 24, 2015 1:46 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Peacock and Partridge.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5808
Re: Peacock and Partridge.
Dubbin, What sizes of this pattern do you usually fish? I have found that I tie and fish mostly 14 and 16. But with this fly I have gone down to 20. I'm not sure that the 20 is better than the 18 or even 14, but I've been influenced by dry fly sizes. Syl Nemes wrote that he thought that smaller wasn...
- Tue Feb 24, 2015 1:34 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Nymphs
- Topic: Higa’s S.O.S.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4095
Re: Higa’s S.O.S.
For a step-by-step from Spenser Higa himself try http://outsmartingfish.com/2010/12/sos-baetis-nymph/ . You will notice Higa uses an Orvis hook (he is an Orvis Guide) and black pheasant tail. Every fly doesn't have to be a copy of the original and many times the patterns are improved upon with a cha...
- Fri Jan 23, 2015 1:05 pm
- Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
- Topic: Winter Fishing
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5150
Winter Fishing
For those of you who fish softhackles in the winter months, what patterns do you perfer? I have been fishing a tiny black and a Syl's midge. I picked those due to the number of midges we have in our local waters. Next month the baetis will be starting, but the hatch won't really get going well until...