The Pearsalls is the tying thread, isn't it? I didn't think it's their silk floss.
Tying Soft Hackle Flies
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For those new to this subject and are searching for Pearsall's silk you should know that Pearsall's was bought by Morus Silk about 5 to 10 years ago. They have done a good job replicating the thread and colors of the original Pearsall's. Look for their Superfine silk filament.
Silk Filament - Morus Silk - Silk Yarns and Filaments
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If you really want to get into the weeds with this subject get this book.
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THE NORTH COUNTRY FLY: YORKSHIRE'S SOFT HACKLE TRADITION. By Robert L. Smith.
2015 1st edition. 4to (195 x 252mm). Ppx,302. Colour and b/w photographs, line drawings. Dark blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Beautifully illustrated with examples of actual flies and materials, and with images from the original manuscripts, this book tells the definitive story of the North...
The Greenwells Glory is one of my favorite alpine lake wet flies. I also wax pearsalls primrose tying silk (not to be confused with the heavier pearsalls floss) with brown cobblers wax. Produces a lovely olive brown body. I have one fly box which consists of nothing but Greenwells wet flies, Greenwells spiders and Greenwells dries...If you made me do all my alpine lake fishing this one box I'd be just fine.
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I think my wax is a very dark brown, not black like I said above. I never got the hang of keeping a bit of wax on my hand while tying.
I bought both the light and dark cobblers wax from feathers mc. I use the dark cobblers wax on Greenwells. I keep the wax room temp and then run a short section of thread through the wax before using. The friction of the thread going through the wax melts the wax around the thread.
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Native Oregonian…1846
There might be some nuggets in this reading list...
Selected Wet Fly Literature:
W.C. Stewart’s The Practical Angler, 1857
T.E. Pritt Yorkshire Flies, 1885 and North Country Flies, 1886
H.H. Edmonds and N.N. Lee's Brook and River Trouting, 1916
G.E.M. Skues The Way of a Trout with a Fly, 1921
G.E.M. Skues Nymph Fishing For Chalk Stream Trout, 1939
James Leisenring and Vernon Hidy The Art of Tying the Wet Fly, 1941
James Leisenring and Vernon Hidy The Art of Tying the Wet Fly and Fishing the
Flymph, 1971
Vernon Hidy Sports Illustrated Wet Fly Fishing, 1961
Vernon Hidy Sports Illustrated Fly Fishing, 1972
Vernon Hidy The Art of Fishing the Flymph – Pt. I The Flymph Phenomenon, Fly-Fisherman magazine, 1971
VernonHidy Fishing the Flymph - II The Dry Fly and the Flymph: A Parallel, Fly-Fisherman magazine, 1971
Vernon Hidy Soft-Hackled Nymphs-The Flymphs chapter in The Masters on the Nymph, 1979
Sylvester Nemes The Soft-Hackled Fly, 1975
Sylvester Nemes The Soft-Hackled Fly Addict, 1981
Sylvester Nemes Soft-Hackled Fly Imitations, 1991
Sylvester Nemes The Soft-Hackled Fly: A Trout Fisherman’s Guide, 1993
Sylvester Nemes Spinners, 1995
Sylvester Nemes Two Centuries of Soft Hackled Flies, 2004
Dave Hughes Wet Flies – Tying and Fishing Soft-Hackles, Winged and Wingless Wets, and Fuzzy Nymphs, 1995
Allen McGee Soft-Hackled Nymphs due out in 2005
http://flymph.com/html/articles.html
Selected Wet Fly Literature:
W.C. Stewart’s The Practical Angler, 1857
T.E. Pritt Yorkshire Flies, 1885 and North Country Flies, 1886
H.H. Edmonds and N.N. Lee's Brook and River Trouting, 1916
G.E.M. Skues The Way of a Trout with a Fly, 1921
G.E.M. Skues Nymph Fishing For Chalk Stream Trout, 1939
James Leisenring and Vernon Hidy The Art of Tying the Wet Fly, 1941
James Leisenring and Vernon Hidy The Art of Tying the Wet Fly and Fishing the
Flymph, 1971
Vernon Hidy Sports Illustrated Wet Fly Fishing, 1961
Vernon Hidy Sports Illustrated Fly Fishing, 1972
Vernon Hidy The Art of Fishing the Flymph – Pt. I The Flymph Phenomenon, Fly-Fisherman magazine, 1971
VernonHidy Fishing the Flymph - II The Dry Fly and the Flymph: A Parallel, Fly-Fisherman magazine, 1971
Vernon Hidy Soft-Hackled Nymphs-The Flymphs chapter in The Masters on the Nymph, 1979
Sylvester Nemes The Soft-Hackled Fly, 1975
Sylvester Nemes The Soft-Hackled Fly Addict, 1981
Sylvester Nemes Soft-Hackled Fly Imitations, 1991
Sylvester Nemes The Soft-Hackled Fly: A Trout Fisherman’s Guide, 1993
Sylvester Nemes Spinners, 1995
Sylvester Nemes Two Centuries of Soft Hackled Flies, 2004
Dave Hughes Wet Flies – Tying and Fishing Soft-Hackles, Winged and Wingless Wets, and Fuzzy Nymphs, 1995
Allen McGee Soft-Hackled Nymphs due out in 2005
http://flymph.com/html/articles.html
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It's a small wheatley.
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Lots of variations but this one has special appeal with opal wrap as opposed to gold or silver wrap.
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Lots of variations but this one has special appeal with opal wrap as opposed to gold or silver wrap.
After a day of fishing in the park, we stopped in West Yellowstone for dinner and a drink and encountered a fellow fly angler sitting at the bar enjoying a double scotch on the rocks which had apparently loosened his tongue and he was boasting of his great day on the Firehole. We had fished there and had some moderate success while trying to avoid buffalo and decided to buy him another double scotch to squeeze out more info as to what he was using. He made the comment that Sylvester Nemes could have put everything he knows about soft hackles into just one book but we were more interested in learning exactly what flies he had used rather than defending Sylvester and to do that bought him another double. His answer was budweiser soft hackles and LGFs LGFs? Turned out they little green f*ckers. He then decided he'd had enough to drink and left. So that's all the info we got. This was in 1994 and we still laugh about it.
Softhackles are magic. I've found ones I tied with the partridge skin Zen Leecher gave me are a touch extra special.
Spent the morning on the lakes, so I hit the river behind guys throwing spinners, shrimp and bobbers, and beads. The silly little hares ear softhackle pulled more than they had said they got all day. This may even be the one I posted above with an extra turn of grouse.
Spent the morning on the lakes, so I hit the river behind guys throwing spinners, shrimp and bobbers, and beads. The silly little hares ear softhackle pulled more than they had said they got all day. This may even be the one I posted above with an extra turn of grouse.
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Many moons ago there were sections of the Firehole that brought about vicious "smacks" from the fat, chocolate-colored, browns right near the end of the Leisenring "Lift"! Always thought this was the lazy man's dry fly because there was always a surface visual disturbance of some proportion. Never had to worry about applying Gink and could fish one fly for a long time. A few Hare's ear Spiders in size 14 and sometimes 16 were all you needed.
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I use kimono silk. It also double duties as rod wrapping thread.
Was that at the Stagecoach bar?
Thx. I'm gonna have to try these. I've been hording the last of my real deal stash.
