Fun with feathers

[Variant]

John,
Great looking Hendrickson pattern. I give all my wets and flymphs a good dunk.
The real true colors of a wet pattern shows when submerged. Pun intended.

Lou

[DUBBN]

Rub some fish oil or salmon slime or moss on your soft hackles. Then test them. I am curious if your results would match mine.

Good looking patterns!!!

[letumgo]

That Hendrickson pattern looks deadly. I need to try some of these myself.

What leader material are you using in the video? That stuff is completely invisible. Good stuff.

[Fishnkilts]

Dubbn, I don't have any fish slime

But on that note... I bought several hen capes from a couple different hackle sellers. A couple of the hen capes were oily. So I ended up soaking in warm mild soapy water. Then rinsed and dried. The orange wet fly in the video is the cleaned feather on the left in the photo below.


orange-hen-feathers.jpg


I am always looking for soft hen hackle that have movement. I ended up buying a lot of generic hen capes, mainly from UK.

John

What's the best way to dry a cape? I have washed capes and skins before and set them out to dry only to have them get moldy.

[Johnno]

I keep all my CDC ‘off cuts’ in a bag. It makes a great Feather dubbing.....