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Any soft hackle type fly up to size 8, down to as small as you want. Due June 1. Deadline to sign up is April 31. First 12 to join. Send with Self Addressed stamped envelope to Darrell Phillips 7890 NW Westside Carlton, OR. 97111 Note: if your package is over 1/2" thick you have to mail at the postal counter, not in a drop box. Otherwise the USPS will consider it as potentially hazardous. I learned this the hard way. 1. Woodenlegs. Kelso Red Ass. RECEIVED x 2. Niveker. TBD. RECEIVED x 3. Recoveronthefly. TBD 4. Johnw1986 TBD. RECEIVED x 5. Vicrider TBD. Red ass Kelso variant. RECEIVED 6. FishingBobNelson. RECEIVEDx 7. J Knowles Lite Brite Soft Hackle. RECEIVED 8. Trouttramp. Spider. RECEIVED 9. Stabgnid. RECEIVED 10. Jburge. RECEIVED 11. Chugbug27. RECEIVED 12. Redietz. RECEIVED 13. Sandan. RECEIVED

Soft hackle fly patterns have been around since pretty much when fly fishing started. That does not mean they aren't effective now. In fact, they are still very effective, and in some circumstances more so. They are relatively easy to fish, and fish tend to bite hard on them and will almost rip the rod out of your hand! They are really good at fishing the hard to fish riffles. Cast about 30 degrees down stream, and let the line take the fly. This style of fishing is called swinging. You can either just keep your rod tip still, or shake the rod for a little more action. When you reach the end of your drift, make a few little bumps on the tip of the rod, and leave it for an additional 10 seconds or so. Then take a step or two down stream and repeat. You cover a lot of water, and always seem to entice those super active fish! We all know that is a recipe for a fun fight! This fly is tied in an olive body with porterage hackle. The body is tied a bit fatter than most soft hackles, and it mimics the body of a caddis. The hackle mimics the legs and head of the caddis. Caddis tend to emerge quickly up to the surface, and trout know this. So swinging this fly quickly through fast water is a great way to get bites. These are quite easy to tie once you get the hang of tying in the soft hackle. I can usually tie out 10-20 of them an hour, so I can fill a box quite quickly! Also the materials on this are rather inexpensive, and you really dont use that many. Just a hook, thread, wire, poly yarn, and a porterage feather. Very simple, yet effective! As always I listed the materials I used on this fly. Hook: TMC 3761 in size 14 Thread: Veevus 6/0 in olive Tail: Antron Yarn Wire: Small Gold UTC Ultra Wire Dubbing: Olive/Brown Hares Ear Dubbing Hackle: Hungarian Partridge Cement: Hard as Hull

I am trying to tie some soft hackle flies and I'm having the worst time with the hackle. My problem is I have some NS Premium Partridge feathers (hackle) that I can't separate the barbs so they stand out like ALL of the tying instruction images I see. What's the secret?

I see lots of soft hackle directions (menus?) for tying soft hackle flies; the problem is most of them just say "partridge", while some of them are specific to "natural gray or brown partridge". My question is: what determines the color of the partridge feather to match against the color of the fly body?

Hook: #14 Daiichi 1180 dry Thread: 14/0 brown Hackle: Woodcock upper covert Rib: Dark copper uni-wire small Body: 2-3 goose barbs [/url]">http://http://s47.photobucket.com/user/wandersonnow/media/Best%20of%202015/Woodcock%20and%20Goose%202_zpslqyeeruo.jpg.html'>

Tail: Lemon duck, short Rib: Dark Copper Uniwire Body: Golden Pheasant Tail Thorax: Sulphur Superfine synthetic Hackle: Spruce Grouse, but a dark partridge would be great as well. William

Which bird(s) or skin product(s) contain most number of aftershaft plumes? Or more than the other, comparison sort......

I want to thank everyone for voting and if you haven't voted on the previous wet fly poll here is a link. This poll is multiple choice.