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Oversized Softhackle
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2022 9:45 am
by DUBBN
If you have never used over sized soft hackle on Woolly Buggers, i highly recommend trying it.
Rooster Pheasant Church Window feathers, the largest hackles on hen capes and saddles, or those huge partridge feathers some of us have troubles finding a productive use for.
No palmered hackle on the Woolly Bugger. Just one, two, or three over sized hackles as a collar.
I have found them extremely effective in the past and the present.
Re: Oversized Softhackle
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2022 10:13 am
by ronr
Those feathers make pretty good "fins" on sculpin patterns too...
Re: Oversized Softhackle
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2022 6:32 pm
by letumgo
Wayne - Could you share an example of your favorites? I’d like to see them.
Re: Oversized Softhackle
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2022 6:42 pm
by DUBBN
Ray, sorry no. I share a few pics on Instagram (private account), with a few friends. That's about all i put on the internet any more.

Re: Oversized Softhackle
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 6:21 am
by letumgo
No worries. I will use my imagination.

Re: Oversized Softhackle
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:49 am
by DUBBN
letumgo wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 6:21 am
No worries. I will use my imagination.
I remember when we really had to do that!
My best producing Wooly Bugger , Sunday was a Olive Tail, Pecaock body. I used two of the largest Brahma hen neck feathers off an Olive dyed cape as the collar. I nymphed with them while floating the Murky watered Colorado River below Glenwood Springs.
I tied the exact same pattern for my brother-in-law, except I used pheasant Church Window feathers..
The two of us landed alot of large Rainbows.
Re: Oversized Softhackle
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 10:34 am
by letumgo
I will tye/fish both…
