Top soft haclkes

[wclark5]

Hey gang, what soft hackles have become your favorites?

[Troutlord1]

Here is 1 I tie for my Ebay site and myself.
A soft hackle caddis emerger. I also like to soft hackle my
pheasant tails.

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj111/troutlord/novcaddis.jpg

[Chromedoggy]

Hey gang, what soft hackles have become your favorites?
I tie a size 16 with a tungsten bead pushed up behind the hackle. Favorite colors in order: Claret, Orange, Highlander green, yellow.

[ESOX]

I like to palmer all the way into the soft hackle and use it on the nose of my cloubuggers for carp.

[ramjet]

A lot of mine are wire-wrapped bodies. I started doing this with some fine gold beading wire I got in a craft store before all the colored wire was availble in fly shops. That color works great for sulfurs. The wire makes a decent segmented body look and gets the bug below the film quckly.

Scott

[BeanOFish]

I use a size 14 or 12 TMC 2457, peacock crystal flash palmered up fo the body, a small amount of peacock ice dub right behind the feather, then partridge feather palmered. I have done really well with this one.

[gunrod]

Starling and black, starling and orange, starling and olive. Also use hen and partridge with all the other colors. I really like tan and dun hen for late season or as a dropper (with a bead) when caddis are popping.

[gunrod]

Oh, and peacock + starling is very good as well. Fish anytime and place you would fish a prince nymph.

[Shoeman]

Not a "true" soft hackle, but this guy works really well

Here's an 18 Sorry about the bad picture (He's camera shy) :lol:

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/552/Gartside_Caddis_Emerger1.jpg

[wclark5]

Hey Shoeman, what is the recipe for that little bugger?

[Shoeman]

It's actually quite simple

Scud type hook

Olive rabbit dubbing

1 turn of partridge hackle (stripped on the hook side)

1 turn of aftershaft at the eye trimmed along the top (beard style)

An excellent caddis emerger. Best fished on a long leader in the film, although I have had success using it as a dropper behind a weighted nymph

[wclark5]

Tying that from size 12 to 18? or smaller?

[Shoeman]

16's and 18's

I use mostly for those finicky mid-summer fish (when nothing else works)

[wclark5]

What is "Aftershaft"? and where do I find it?

[Shupac]

Pheasant tail, partridge/green, partridge/yellow (for sulfurs)

[Shoeman]

What is "Aftershaft"? and where do I find it?

It's the small feather at the base of hackles

http://singlebarbed.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/philoplume.jpg

Also called philoplumes

Here's one being used on a Bear's Hex (from a pheasant)

http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/fotw2/100900fotw.php

[chase creek]

Love Stewart's Black Spider, any of the Partridge&_______, peacock& Starling, too.