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Iron Blue Soft Hackle

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Published on Jan 10. 2016 - 9 years ago
Updated or edited 6 years ago

Wet flies

Hackle

Soft hackles and spiders

Materials Used;

Hook, Kamasan B170 size 14
Thread, Pearsalls Red Gossamer Silk
Tag, Red Thread
Body, Natural Mole, Rabbit and UV Lite-Brite mixed together to form a nice dubbing..
Hackle, A Dark Body Feather from a Starling

Originator

Davie McPhail

North Country Hackles Part 2

North Country spider and soft hackle expert Robert L Smith in the second of his Partridge fly-tying videos showcases some of the rare and traditional soft hackle material used in the dressing of tr

Feb 28. 2021

North Country Hackles Part 1

North Country spider and soft hackle expert Robert L Smith in the first of his Partridge fly-tying videos showcases some of the rare and traditional soft hackle material used in the dressing of tra

Jan 2. 2025

Whalsay Hamill's Spider

This is a variant of a Shetland fly that was inspired by the Hamill's Killer streamer from New Zealand.

The North Country Fly

Mar 25. 2015

When it comes to books, there's nothing I like more than focus. A book that has a well defined subject and covers in depth rather than broad has my vote already before I have opened it.
When I then open it and find well structured, thoroughly researched and beautifully presented content from cover to cover, I'm sold!
Such a book is Robert L. Smith's "The North Country Fly".

May 7. 2013

Buying Soft Hackle

The soft hackle is supposed to be - as the name implies - soft. Soft hackle can come from many birds. Chickens, gamebirds like partridge, grouse and quail, pheasant and even crows and jackdaws.

Plu Stiniog

Jul 1. 2011

The story of this books is a fascinating one. The author Emrys Evans passed away in 2008 at the age of 91. In his life he had collected Welsh fly patterns. He was also a historian of Welsh fishing, and kept notes about the flies. After his death these notes were turned into a book manuscript by Geraint Vaughan Jones and the flies were photographed by his son-in-law Gareth Tudor Jones.

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