Female Phasianus Colchicus

[Simplejack 0]

Female Phasianus Colchicus. Are these birds any good for fly tying? Soft Hackle? I see males online, but I don't really see any of the females.

 

 

[bellevue.chartreuse.trout 0]

Certainly look good. First thing that comes to my mind is 'are they protected'? If not, like you said, soft hackles seem to look pretty good.

 

And if this is just a female pheasant, then would one that is taken from a pheasant farm(or a 'put and take' hunting farm) - might it be legal to possess and use?

[fshrmanms 0]

I have used Phasianus Colchicus (common pheasant hen) on soft hackle flies, nymphs... etc.

[FlaFly 0]

feathers look a lot like gold-laced Wyandotte hens. Have you tried them?

[SBPatt 0]

A little different look on pheasant tails, using hen (all tied on #16 Dai Riki 070)

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Soft Hackle (split thread)

Doug Korn's Spent Wing Spruce Moth

Brown Trout Parr

Although cock pheasant tail fibers have that special something, like peacock, the hen fibers are nicely marked and worth using.

Regards,

Scott

[Rolf Jacobsen 0]

SBPatt, that soft hackle is beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I can see some nice soft hackles and wet flies coming out of those skins.

 

These are white/black Wyandotte feathers

[Jolly Red 0]

Instead of a pheasant tail nymph, wouldn't that be a hen feather nymph?

[bellevue.chartreuse.trout 0]

Still a hen pheasant though?!?!

[SBPatt 0]

Instead of a pheasant tail nymph, wouldn't that be a hen feather nymph?

If you're referring to the ones I showed, they were all tied with fibers from a hen tail, so they are true PT's.

 

Regards,

Scott

[bellevue.chartreuse.trout 0]

Male and Female Pheasant Tail Nymph/s ? I know the Male(traditional) PT nymph catches fish. Undoubtedly the Female version will too!

[mikechell 0]

Although I will say this much ... I am not saying ANYTHING about which "tail" will catch more, male or female.

 

I just know which one would "catch" MY eye.

[Simplejack 0]

I just bought this for $24 total shipped. I should have not bought it since I didn't really have the extra money to get it, but I did anyway.. Figured if it didn't work I could at least sell it and get my money back. I should have it by next week sometime.

 

Not a very good picture

 

 

 

[Fisherboy0301 0]

Luckily looks like this is done much better than the other bird you posted. And everything from the tail to body to wing feathers should be useful, all I can say is go out on limbs and experiment!

[Crackaig 0]

Some of our most successful flies here are tied with Hen Pheasant, most famously of all the Invicta. I use it both natural and dyed for a lot of flies, here's a few.

Invicta, Silver Invicta, Interloper

a selection of various colours of the Highland Rough Fly. These are loch flies we use locally. Of course you can use these feathers in many more ways. I'm not trying to spoon feed you patterns, but inspire you with possibilities.

 

The possibilities with this are endless. I must have upwards of 50 pairs of hen pheasant wings stashed around here in various colours. If you can get the paired wings, they are the most useful. Make sure they are a pair! Some suppliers think a pair consisting of a left and a right from different pairs constitutes a pair... It doesn't. Veniards is one that is guilty of this.

Cheers,

C.