Gene, if you haven't already read The History of Fly Fishing in Fifty Flies by Ian Whitelaw, you'd love it. But it actually sounds like you've already read it.
--Scott
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:20 AM, TurbineBlade <doublebclan@gmail.com> wrote:
--I've read some things about Nemes and I own and have read the Hughes book quite a bit. Stewart was before both of them and was a proponent of the upstream method, which to me is possibly the hardest thing to master in fly fishing.The "lift" is a common cited method, but I have to admit that I rarely am in a situation to use it (i.e., fishing across or down at an angle where I can stop the rod to bring the fly ^^ in front of a sighted (or presumed) fish. I guess it can be silly to apply this soft hackle thing to small streams which comprise probably 90% of what we do, where any small, dark-looking thing with a bead works about the same as another subsurface, but I've found myself in a smaller minority of folks who use them for warm water. Clearly, everyone does their own thing and if it works - awesome. Throw an over-hackled #2 clouser minnow until you drop ;).Fish are interesting -- I've watched plenty of them up close and am convinced that there are times where soft hackles out-fish everything else. I can only figure that there is so little there (and what is there is quite mobile), that the fish aren't as easily "put off" by it. Of course, you can use bright silk bodies, tinsel or red tags, etc. to invoke the super-normal stimulus which I believe answers the question "why are they hitting this stupid looking thing" in just about all cases (nod to Tinbergen).
On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 10:22:22 AM UTC-5, namfos wrote:Google up the fly tier Syl Nemes - the man wrote the book(s) on soft-hackles. Also Dave Hughes has some good titles about wet flies and a much older book is Art of Tying the Wet Fly & Fishing the Flymph by James Leisenring. (of "lift" fame, Turbine Blade)Mark
On Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 8:18:22 AM UTC-5, TurbineBlade wrote:While performing a mildly-competent sumo deadlift in the basement (and trying not to lower the barbell onto a cat) I had a revelation from the brain fuzz that will be of interest to no one: Every fish I've caught in the last 2 years could have probably been caught on a soft hackle of some kind. I've heard of people who wanted to "get back to their roots" and fish old bucktail streamers only for a year, or ditch parachute dries for the old catskills, etc. and most say that the change did not noticeably affect their catch rate.Starting now, I'm going to fish nothing but soft hackles this year with a couple of caveats:1. I get to fish it as a dropper off of a duo rig2. I can fish larger sizes, smaller sizes, unweighted, weighted, etc.3. Ice cream sandwichesI figure everything from an unweighted #16 black spider to a #8 bead head "steelhead soft hackle" will do the trick.Should be fun --Gene ("part ridge") TB
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