Soft Hackle Dry fly

[Roadkill]

For all of the North County soft hackle upstream afecionados, here is a fly from the IFFF International Fly Fishing Fair last week in Bend, Oregon. Award winning tyer Jerry Criss taught a class about New World Soft Hackles and discussed the history of SHs and Flymphs. I didn't see his class (gone fishing ) but picked this up at his tying bench. He created this variation on historic soft hackles to extend his drift for the local spring creek Fall River. He tied his with a size 22 dry fly hackle but I don't have any handy so here is a Pale Evening Dun tied with a size 20 Whiting 100.

This looks like a great addition to anyones fly boxes who admires SHs.

Hook-94840 size 12
Tail- Coq De Leon
Body- PMD & PED fine and dry
Hackles- Grizzly #20 wound through darker thorax dubbing, Partridge 2 turns through the Grizz.

B0100737 by William Lovelace, on Flickr

[tie2fish]

Nice! A "jingler" of sorts.

[chase creek]

That's a handsome fly!

[DUBBN]

Very cool concept, and so many possibilities!

[daringduffer]

Jerry Criss is a good teacher explaining what he does, and why. I enjoy watching his videos and guess he has had an impact on my tying. He really strokes his tying thread when introducing himself.

dd

[William Anderson]

Bill, that looks awesome. I should consider something like this for the whitefly hatch in central PA coming up. They hit flymphs hard but there is a boiling of surface activity as well and this fly riding higher in the film would be fun too.

[letumgo]

Marvelous design. I look forward to trying these. Thanks for the inspiration.

[Roadkill]

P.S. on soft hackle dry flies...

tie2fish mentioned a "jingler" which I had never heard of before his post. I looked it up on the .net and created a few Calibaetis jinglers for my flyboxes. The primary difference is that the Partridge is wound in front of the dry fly hackle toward the eye...

B0100775 by William Lovelace, on Flickr

This search for the Scottish "jingler" also yielded an old East Coast American Soft Hackle Dry Fly -the Cinberg Dry from the Neversink River area.
Mine is tied with Fox belly fur and Wood Duck subs but does tie in the soft hackle over the eye and fold it back after the body and Brown hackle have been finished...

B0100776 by William Lovelace, on Flickr

[letumgo]

I'm really enjoying this series of flies Bill. Well done.

[William Anderson]

Bill, I'm convinced from these flies that this type of dry fly would be an excellent approach for a number of hatches, something I really need to try. These look great.

There has been a healthy discussion of the Jingler flies over that past couple years. I won't be able to find them all but here are a couple threads where the Jinglers made an appearance.

I believe (someone please correct me if I'm mistaken) Hans pointed out the Jingler style soft-hackled dry fly some time ago. Certainly the first I had heard of it.

Hans' Creed fly

http://www.flymphforum.com/viewtopic.ph ... ler#p57993


A couple of Bill's Jinglers

http://www.flymphforum.com/viewtopic.ph ... ler#p58492

http://www.flymphforum.com/viewtopic.ph ... it=jingler


Matt Eastham is one of my favorite guys to follow on Twitter. We seem to share a lot of common interests and his blog is a good read. Here is a link to his Jingler intro.

http://northcountryangler.blogspot.se/2 ... -away.html

http://northcountryangler.blogspot.co.u ... ecord.html

This is something I need to do sooner than later.