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- Fri Nov 27, 2020 6:17 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: Is anyone fishing winged wets for "trout spey" style fishing?
- Replies: 5
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Re: Is anyone fishing winged wets for "trout spey" style fishing?
That soft hackle journal blogspot is fantastic! Thank you for the recommendation! Ronr, I'm doing the same thing as you with the single hand rod conversions just by getting a new line setup. Love the Rio Single Hand Spey and especially the Single Hand Spey 3D. I put an OPST on an old 9 foot 3 wt XP ...
- Wed Nov 25, 2020 5:41 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: Is anyone fishing winged wets for "trout spey" style fishing?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2285
Is anyone fishing winged wets for "trout spey" style fishing?
I've gotten into trout spey fishing wooly buggers, leech patterns, micro-intruders and of course teams of soft hackles. Has anyone here swung old fashioned non-salmon-fly-style winged wets on a trout spey setup? Any tips on fly design for this? I'll be giving that a serious try this coming year.
- Mon Nov 23, 2020 11:24 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Copper Kebari
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1025
Re: Copper Kebari
That's beautiful. Is that monocord slippery? What I mean is, does it hold the hackle tightly?
- Mon Nov 23, 2020 3:13 pm
- Forum: Wet Fly Literature and History
- Topic: Dictionary of Trout Flies
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2762
Re: Dictionary of Trout Flies
This great book, recommended to me by Davy Wotton as he taught me about wet fly fishing, is tremendously useful and informative.
- Sat Nov 21, 2020 6:53 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Borderer
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2539
Re: Borderer
Gorgeous wet fly, David. Will have to add this to the winters tying list. Thank you so much for posting it.
- Sat Nov 21, 2020 6:21 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Big, ugly palmer wets
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4683
Re: Big, ugly palmer wets
John, That Swiss CDC clamp is worth every penny. I've tied deer hair hackle wets that are truly unique, sporting a sparse hackle, one turn of deer hair, on a classic wet fly body. I put Dave Hughes' advice on tying wet flies with fur to get really sparse and effective fur collars on my wets using th...
- Sat Nov 21, 2020 10:02 am
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Big, ugly palmer wets
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4683
Re: Big, ugly palmer wets
ForumGhillie, If you want the pronounced taper, I agree the Coq de Leon capes don't have that. For " brahma-muddler type" ties and for long soft body hackle without a taper they are great. I might try using the Swiss CDC clamp to spin up an angled sampling of the CdL hen feather to see if ...
- Fri Nov 20, 2020 10:55 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Big, ugly palmer wets
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4683
Re: Big, ugly palmer wets
I strongly recommend the Whiting Coq de Leon hen saddles and capes for this. The speckled brown Coq de Leon hen feathers are soft and strong and spectacular, even if the flies I tie aren't yet.
Example: body hackle on this fly
Example: body hackle on this fly
- Fri Nov 20, 2020 10:48 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: “Dr No”
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1634
Re: “Dr No”
Good looking fly. I think the wicked looking barb confers 00 status...
- Fri Nov 20, 2020 10:46 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: Folded quill winged wet flies
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12076
Re: Folded quill winged wet flies
Will be fishing folded wings since paired winging materials are scarce and my winging skills are underdeveloped.