Whiskey Creek Fly Fishing

A while back, this site featured a series of posts intended to be a primer for tying soft hackled flies. Here is a summary of each post:

Introduction – Why fish with soft hackles, and some reference books

Demostration - Partridge and Yellow – start simple

Materials - all about the feathers that make up the soft hackles

Materials - popular body materials

Demonstration – Purple and Snipe – taking hackle from a wing covert feather

Demonstration – Green and Partridge – adding a thorax

Demonstration – Bead head Pheasant Tail – bead headed soft hackles

Demonstration – Starling and Herl – my go to fly