Starling & Red Soft Hackle

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FlyFisherMann1955
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Starling & Red Soft Hackle

Post by FlyFisherMann1955 » Sat May 23, 2020 11:53 am

My version of Hankinsfly's Starling & Red soft hackle. I broke out the Pearsall's Gossamer and tried 2 colors. On a few, I added a thorax of red peacock.

Hook: Mustad (94842) - size 14
Body: Pearsall's Gossamer
Scarlet (11A)
Cardinal (12)
Thorax (optional): Peacock herl - dyed red
Hackle: Starling
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Re: Starling & Red Soft Hackle

Post by letumgo » Sat May 23, 2020 4:03 pm

Simply irresistible! I really like the look of the red peacock herl. ;)
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Re: Starling & Red Soft Hackle

Post by joaniebo » Fri May 29, 2020 9:39 am

Ken

Although I don't take my own advice, I've often told beginning fly tiers that if they wanted to tie effective soft hackles in many colors, sizes, etc. they only needed two bird skins ---- starling and partridge.

Needless to say, I yet to heed my own advice which, if I did, my bank account would be substantially bigger!

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Re: Starling & Red Soft Hackle

Post by bocast » Fri May 29, 2020 11:28 am

Sparse starling hackles are a joy to see and a blast to fish. Well done.
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