Tying the "Flymth" or soft-hackles are hot!!!

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

http://www.flymph.com/index.html

Here is a good web site about the soft hackle flies that are so effective.

Sylvest Nemes wrote a lot on this subject too.

[JD]

...and if you haven't read Dave Hughes "Wet Flies: Tying and Fishing Soft-Hackles, Winged and Wingless Wets, and Fuzzy Nymphs" or Allen McGee's "Soft-Hackled Nymphs," by all means do so. Both are modern treatments of the topic, and in many ways much more accessible than the venerable works of Nemes, Hidy, etc.

[SHigSpeed]

A swung soft hackle hare's ear has accounted for most of my recent AR halfpouders. I love tying and fishing these flies on the swing and in stillwater.

_SHig

[SHigSpeed]

Here's what I've been using:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4064/4452462829_7000786951.jpg

...and what I'm going to try (a bit smaller and more naturalistic...)

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4068/4474936677_56b2e6c6fb.jpg

Hope to try the new one soon!

_SHig

[speyfool]

spiders, flymphs, and soft hackles are the best way to fish, imo. You can swing them, dead drift, tight line em. Cast upstream, downstream, or just let them dangle in the current. You can't really go wrong.

I was fishing the Klamath one day and swinging all sorts of larger flies. size 4's, some 2-4" intruders, leeches, etc. My biggest steelhead of the day was caught on a small sz10 or 12 soft hackle. Go figure.