Comments on: Soft Hackle Materials

By: junior

junior — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:17:14 +0000

Hello, I liked much of his blog, congratulations. It especially helped me a lot because I am starting my first soft hackle now.
I put a link to your blog on my blog.
Regards

By: Wet Flies & A Beginner’s Retreat (Stop Thinking So Much) « SwittersB & Fly Fishing

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:42:43 +0000

[...] you many hassels of figuring out hatches and dredging the bottom. Tie or buy a simple assortment of wet flies….or ‘flymphs’/soft hackles and cast them precisely, swing them, retrieve them, jerk them back in fits and starts and you will [...]

By: John LeJeune

John LeJeune — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:36:00 +0000

Stone River Outfitters in New Hampshire is a very well stocked fly shop that is also on the web.
http://www.stoneriveroutfitters.com/

By: Soft Hackles (Whiskey Creek Primer) « SwittersB’s Weblog

Soft Hackles (Whiskey Creek Primer) « SwittersB’s Weblog — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:35:46 +0000

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By: WhiskeyCreek

WhiskeyCreek — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:55:24 +0000

Hi WFF,

Check out my latest post. Your questions inspired me to get the bird out. There are size 20 feathers, maybe even smaller, above the ring.

Also, some of the books I referenced show some techniques for downsizing hackles. I don’t use those techniques, I don’t tie much below size 20 and find those hackles on the wings, or with smaller birds like starling.
The one technique I remember is to tie the hackle in first, mid shank or so. Tie in so the barbs are facing the hook eye. Then after competing the body and thorax, bend the hackle barbs backwards and secure with the thread head. This reduces the hackle length by half a hook shank.

By: winonaflyfactory

winonaflyfactory — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:12:30 +0000

with the soft hackle, do sizes matter the same with standard hackle? can they be trimmed down without loosing the effect? I was finding that the pheasant I have was hard to find a hackle tip that had shorter, size 16-18 fibers? am I just looking in the wrong spot on the pheasant?

By: Chris Moran

Chris Moran — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:32:31 +0000

Nice writing style. Looking forward to reading more from you.

Chris Moran