"What are some of your favorite soft hackle flies for still waters? "

Howdy all . . .
Enjoy using this pattern, eyes are plastic bead chain, body SLF dubbing, unweighted fished
on a floating line, weighted on a full sinking line.
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Mr Karsten, that is some beautiful dubbing technique.
Good fishing to you !

Been busy fishing the upper headwaters of the Kenai river, no salmon
have arrived yet in one of my favorite headwater streams. Its catch and release for trout and
closed for salmon year round. The hare's ear and pheasant neck collar is quite
effective on the shallow riffles. Been probing the deep ...

Beautiful work William, inspirational

Thanks Dubbn, for posting the Grannom Pupa by Hans Weilenmann.

Instead of the lighter colored body that Hans has in the video,
I used the dark natural Hare's ear and pheasant neck collar.
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Used a Mustad C49S caddis curved hook ...

Greetings to all ...

Recently acquired two nice olive pheasant skins, I've been admiring the coloring and
sheen of the neck feathers. What flymph patterns would you all suggest for these ?
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Good fishing to all ...
John ...

You guys are making me drool. I cant lay off the different colorings that
Hareline Dubbin is producing with the Ozzie Possum " frosted " assortment

John,

I would suggest tying the hackle in reverse, like you see on the Kabari Tenkara flies. The other suggestion is to tie the hackle longer than you might generally tie a soft hackle to impart a more swimming action the fly when worked in Stillwater.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'd never even ...

Greetings to all, last winter reading through the various discussions of
softhackled patterns. I'm applying what I've gathered to specific angling
situations here in my home waters.
The Susitna River drainage has many bodies of water which are tributaries
but some are stillwaters (lakes ...