If you find yourself stumped by picky trout with any regularity, it’s probably time for you to learn how to fish a soft hackle fly. These time-tested patterns are characterized by their wispy ...

Local fly tyer Robert Cox will be demonstrating how to make soft hackle flies from noon until 2 p.m. on Saturday at East Rosebud Fly and Tackle. Cox will be tying several of his proven and ...

Soft hackle wet flies are about as old as fly fishing, but are still some of the most effective patterns around. Soft hackles are used in all of the waters we fish, from big rivers and spring ...

One type of wet fly continues to be popular with contemporary anglers: the so-called soft-hackle flies, although I’ve never liked that designation. These simple patterns are merely wingless wet ...

Don't let a lack of knowledge stop you. These flies consistently catch trout, no matter the hatch or your fly fishing skill level. Like gems in the water. / photo by Ken Baldwin If it played out ...

"It’s a soft hackle fly. That’s about as simple as I can state it. It’s good for steelhead — salmon, too." Rock made the comment with the certainty of an 85-year-old fisherman whose life ...

a fly-fishing entrepreneur and professional since the 1960s, will present a program of the history, development and fishing of the soft hackle fly in a program sponsored by the Spokane Fly Fishers ...

One of my favorite soft-hackle flies is the Half-Cocked Soft Hackle, an easy-to-tie pattern that uses feathers from several Midwestern gamebirds. The version depicted here uses woodcock and ...

That's understood. No, I'm talking about wet flies, nymphs, streamers, soft hackles or any of the other concoctions we the fly fishermen come up with in an attempt to make a trout forgo a cheese ...

Casting down and across a slower pool also will work. The strike to a wet fly or soft-hackle fly that is on the swing is almost always vicious. The fish sets the hook when it strikes the fly.