{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Soft hackle challenge

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 rig

2.  I can fish larger sizes, smaller sizes, unweighted, weighted, etc. 

3.  Ice cream sandwiches

I 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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