Two Bit Soft Hackle

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Two Bit Soft Hackle

Post by Roadkill » Fri Jun 19, 2015 10:29 pm

This fly was inspired two days ago by seeing Charlie Craven's beautiful nymph the Two Bit Hooker as a fly recommended for a Central Oregon river. After a previous day on the river, I wanted a slightly heavier SH pattern and Charlie's two bead thorax was the perfect solution. :) I wanted to tie up a more simple guide style fly, easy to tie and fish where you can lose it. I have tied up multiple bead stoneflies but never a soft hackle. 8-)

The Two Bit Soft Hackle came off my vise yesterday... ;)
ImageRIMG7246 by William Lovelace, on Flickr

Hook- Dai Riki 060 #16
2mm copper beads (I have no 1.5mm Tungsten yet)
Tail and Hackle-Natural India Hen Back
Thread body-Rust Brown Ultra 70
Rib-Fine gold wire
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Re: Two Bit Soft Hackle

Post by tie2fish » Sat Jun 20, 2015 6:30 am

That should get down in a hurry, Bill. For some reason, it calls to mind a damsel or dragonfly nymph for me.
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Re: Two Bit Soft Hackle

Post by DUBBN » Sat Jun 20, 2015 6:57 am

I have no doubt your Two Bit SH will produce. To me, it looks like a PMD Emerger.

It is difficult for me to not get inspiration from Charlie Craven.
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Re: Two Bit Soft Hackle

Post by letumgo » Sat Jun 20, 2015 8:49 am

Excellent! The copper colored beads go very nicely with the rust colored body and brown mottled hackle. I will be adding several of these to my fly box soon. This looks like the ideal pattern for when I need to fish deeper in the water column.

Thanks for sharing!
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Re: Two Bit Soft Hackle

Post by Mataura mayfly » Sat Jun 20, 2015 10:15 pm

Looks like it could work. ;)
And if you find they do not like it for whatever reason, you can tie a lighter soft hackle/spider/nymph off of the bend of that one and have two flies of different representations working at depth.
Thus you would be fishing my 80% of the time blind fishing rig. :lol:
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Re: Two Bit Soft Hackle

Post by Roadkill » Sun Jun 21, 2015 10:58 am

Mm, :D

Add one more fly to the cast and you have my normal searching setup.I usually like my point fly the heaviest to prevent some tangles before I manage a Gordian Knot cast. ;)
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Re: Two Bit Soft Hackle

Post by DUBBN » Sun Jun 21, 2015 11:00 am

Roadkill wrote:Mm, :D

Add one more fly to the cast and you have my normal searching setup.I usually like my point fly the heaviest to prevent some tangles before I manage a Gordian Knot cast. ;)
Ditto.
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Re: Two Bit Soft Hackle

Post by Roadkill » Mon Jul 11, 2022 9:55 pm

Just a bump to add that this fly saved the day for me last week on the Crooked River after ronr and his fishing partner had headed home, and I found out that I did not have the required Pheasant tail nymph to drop shot down the river. :o

ImageRIMG7231 by William Lovelace, on Flickr


Later afternoon the fish chose my Transitional PMD Flymph on the swing. :D

ImageRIMG7232 by William Lovelace, on Flickr
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Re: Two Bit Soft Hackle

Post by letumgo » Tue Jul 12, 2022 5:05 am

Lovely stretch of water. Looks like it was a very calm day. Had it been windy, it looks like good conditions to try drifting terrestrials.
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