Nemes or Hughes?
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I am looking to pick up a book on soft hackles, preferably one that is more of a how to and maybe even with some patterns. I have read Hughes’ Reading The Water and I like the way he writes, it was very informative and I learned a lot from it. Are Nemes’ books good how to books as well or should I stick with Hughes’ Wet Fly? Any guidance or recommendations would be very helpful. Thanks.
-Kid
Hey Kid-
I like Hugh’s wet fly book as well, but if you are looking for a book with even more indepth information on soft Hackles I would highly recommend Nemes.
I completely agree with RipTide…the book is pretty old school but is filled with knowledge on soft hackles, patterns, techniques, etc…
Would you guys recommend The Soft Hackled Fly Addict or The Soft Hackled Fly and Tiny Soft Hackles?
And thanks for the quick replies.-Kid
The only one I am familiar with is the Soft Hackled Fly Addict…so that is the one that I will recommend.
Here is a photograph of one of my more creative soft hackles…dark green glass bead…flash tinsel body…peacock herl near the head…and then the partridge wrapped twice around the hook.
That’s funny Cameron, all this time I thought it was just my inexperience that was causing me to miss so many fish while a swinging soft. I am also a big fan of swinging softs. My little 1 wt is perfect for this in my home stream.
Is it just me or do the fish that you do manage to hook on a soft seem fight harder then nymph caught fish of similar size?
I wonder if it could be that Trout feeding on emergers have been in the river long enough to learn the feeding pattern therefore they are a little stronger fish then the fresh from the truck stockers… This feeding pattern is demanding on the fish since it is constantly swimming in shallow, usually faster, sections of the river. Anyway not sure about all that and BD thinks I am crazy for saying so, but I still love the swing!
BD that Loomis 3wt is puurrfect for swinging some of the riffles on Caney. Next time out we’ll fish a section together and I can show you how I do it (or you can pay someone to show you the right way). Like I mentioned before I miss several fish and I do break off from time to time. but I do get lucky every now and again and it is a deadly way to target fish sipping
Would you say that soft hackles are really only good during a caddis hatch when the trout are just sipping the film.
I’m not an expert with soft hackles, but I have found that they also work well as a makeshift attractor when there is no active hatch.
Well, Friday I tied a March Brown Spider and went out Saturday and fished with my first soft hackle.
I read a neat article today in the latest issue of the Big Sky Journal about Ernest Hemingway and his then wife, Pauline, when staying at a friend’s ranch in Montana would spend the afternoons casting wet flies.
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