These time-tested patterns are characterized by their ... they’re as old as fly fishing itself. Soft hackle flies are designed to imitate a number of insects at any given time, so employing ...

A close second would be, “What (or how many) fly patterns ... flies I never go fishing without would be the style of wet flies commonly referred to as “soft hackles.” These simple yet ...

Cox will be tying several of his proven and favorite patterns and discussing how to effectively fly fish soft hackle flies. Tyer's are encouraged to bring their fly-tying vices and tools and tie ...

As I embark on my fifty-first season of fly-fishing and fly tying ... Most fly shops are likely to stock an assortment of soft-hackle patterns such as Partridge and Yellow, Partridge and Green ...

I started out trout fishing about 15 years ago using soft hackles, the simplest form of ... Dave Hughes and others provide effective fly patterns. A final tip from Lefty: Tie a short piece of ...

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 ...

This pattern, tied with grizzly hackle on a light hook ... When you see this buoyant fly disappear, set the hook. The greatest lesson on cluster fishing I’ve ever learned was taught by Bighorn ...

We’re not talking about “Dancing with the Stars,” but rather the Spokane Fly Fishers’ annual ... 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on a soft-hackle attractor pattern called the Olive Willy.

It is also much like regular fly fishing, and a tenkara angler ... It was a dark-colored, reverse soft-hackle fly, a simple pattern that is easy to tie. “Tenkara was done by semicommercial ...