Hans Weilenmann wrote:Wayne,
Never mind Jeff...
It has not fallen out of favor in Wales, where it started in the 1700's
Cheers,
Hans W
Hans, nor has it here completely...... least in my own personal fly boxes.
I have never used hen hackle for the pattern- usually poor grade farmyard cock hackle. Often I will fish it upstream on the surface and give the line a quick strip to sink the fly at the end of the drift to let it swing as a wet.
Used from November on, it makes an excellent NZ brown beetle imitation (tied with bronze peacock), but I often wonder if it is taken for the Porina moth when fished at dusk. Interesting the grub of both insects is ground dwelling, the adult insects often end up on/in the water though.
When found here now, most often the gold tag has been dropped. I still tie with tag.
Spent a couple of weeks this past November fishing nothing but Cochy patterns, catch rate was neither up nor down on average...... but it still works.
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