{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Tenkara recommended flies

I don't use a tenkara rod, but I'd "de-reverse" the hackle on those soft hackles and just stick with the traditional ones ;).  I target bluegill (and trout) with those all the time and love 'em.  I copied David Hughes and I tie the bird and orange (bird because I use pheasant mostly, not partridge -- a lot of birds work fine), bird and yellow, bird and green, bird and herl, and some others with spiky dubbing, random bodies, flash, etc.  They all work.  I tend to like the ones with a thorax dubbed on, but I usually just dub the thorax using the "stripped" feathers that you normally remove in preparing the soft hackle feather -- just the little webby, soft suckers.  I just dub 'em on like regular dubbing and they work fine to prop the hackle out.  I'm not sure anyone else does this...?  

It was fun actually fishing for trout with them on a swing (weighted, unweighted, split shot, etc.), but I use them in still water too.  I'm 100% convinced they'd work just as well on a tenkara set up.  

Gene

On Sunday, May 5, 2013 10:51:58 PM UTC-4, Eric...@yahoo.com wrote:

I received a Tenkara rod for Christmas. I broke it out this weekend and had a blast catching small bass and bluegills. I had no luck on on the Japanese reverse hackle flies. However nymphs, small sliders, and San Juan worms were great.

What flies are you using on your Tenkara rods?

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