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Olive & Starling Soft Hackle

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Thanks Mike, Paul & Murray.

 

Paul - Your right. It is a crappy photo, but starling is a surprisingly beautiful feather in the right light. The feathers are black with a lovely green iridescence, when viewed at the right angle. I wish the photo did a better job of showing the thorax of these flies. They are made with three different colors of beaver dubbing. They have a mottled olive/brown/dark olive color. I've been playing around with multiple color combinations in hopes that they will be more appealing to the fish. Nature is seldom monotone.

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Atherton would be proud. Great ties Ray. I haven't used beaver dubbing in a long time. Should give a nice little buoyancy to the fly to keep it near the surface.

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Classic looking flies Ray. They are superb.

 

Interesting use of up and down eyes. Do you have a theory as to which you use when?

 

 

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Dave - No, they were all supposed to be tyed on TUE hooks. I pulled them all from the same package of hooks and had not notice that some of them were TDE hooks until they were done. I just love the look of the TUE hooks.

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Scud hooks or shrimp hooks should work just fine. I have seen some beautiful soft hackle flies tyed on curved hooks. They give the fly a nice look of "implied motion".

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