Soft Hackle Flies

""Hooked"" wrote

That's ok by me so long as the fish are co-operating. :-)


I'm sure most would agree. Personally, I usually get bored "catching lots
of fish."

Now, of course, I get bored when I'm not catching too G, but in the
situations when I "have the problem solved" and can catch routinely I
usually quit, or look for tougher fish.. I now find a few fish that were
hard to catch far more rewarding than a lot that were easy.

Larry L wrote:
""Hooked"" wrote

That's ok by me so long as the fish are co-operating. :-)

I'm sure most would agree. Personally, I usually get bored
"catching lots of fish."

My favorite days on the water have been catching that one good fish just before
heading home.
--
TL,
Tim
http://css.sbcma.com/timj

Larry L wrote:
""Hooked"" wrote

That's ok by me so long as the fish are co-operating. :-)

I'm sure most would agree. Personally, I usually get bored
"catching lots of fish."

My favorite days on the water have been catching that one good fish just before
heading home.
--
TL,
Tim
http://css.sbcma.com/timj

Yes catching one after another tires the old arms but just remember a bad
day on the river is better than a good day at work

"Larry L" wrote in message
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""Hooked"" wrote

That's ok by me so long as the fish are co-operating. :-)


I'm sure most would agree. Personally, I usually get bored "catching
lots of fish."

Now, of course, I get bored when I'm not catching too G, but in the
situations when I "have the problem solved" and can catch routinely I
usually quit, or look for tougher fish.. I now find a few fish that
were hard to catch far more rewarding than a lot that were easy.

Check out the swap led by Larry Median at this link

http://home.planet.nl/~westb001/index.html

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"Stuart DeWolfe" wrote in message
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I am looking for a good Pattern book for Soft-Hackled Flies. I already
have
the book Two Centuries of Soft-Hackled Flies by Sylvester Nemes but would
like yet another. If you know of any better I would appreciate your
suggestions. Thanks in advance.

--
Tight Lines & Great Memories
Stuart DeWolfe

My father has tied flies for decades. He told me that he uses chicken
hen feathers for soft hackle flies in order for the lure to sink into
the water. For floating soft hackle flies, he recommends using a
chicken rooster tail, but only from roosters that are three years old or
older. Somehow, I guess that they float better.
May you have a good time fishing,
The Ressler Home.

In article ,
ospam (Big Dale) wrote:

Stuart wrote:snipI am looking for a good Pattern book for Soft-Hackled
Flies.
I already have
the book Two Centuries of Soft-Hackled Flies by Sylvester Nemes but would
like yet another

This is not a pattern book, But Dave Hughes wrote a book called Wet Flies
that
was copyrighted back in 1995. It was responsible for my addiction to tying
and
fishing soft hackle flies. Don't forget to tie a few of the pattern called
the
red ass. There is something about the combination of peacock and partridge
with
a little of the color red thrown in that a lot of fish seem to find
attractive.
Even with the old style of soft hackle flies I sometimes have about three
fibers of z-lon as a mini trailing shuck. I have conned myself into thinking
that this sometimes makes a difference.

Big Dale



The art of the wetfly by ws Roger Fogg and his later handbook of north
country flies
http://www.wetfly.co.uk