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Gray Ghost Soft Hackle
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2022 7:15 pm
by Roadkill
Hook-Dai Riki #280 Size 10
Thread- 3/0 Olive Monocord
Body-10/0 silver lined glass beads with muskrat belly fur in a dubbing loop wound between the beads.
Hackle- Greenish Cock Pheasant Church Windowpane feather
RIMG7360 by
William Lovelace, on Flickr
Re: Gray Ghost Soft Hackle
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2022 8:35 pm
by Partsman
Very nice roadkill, please for give my ignorance, is the windowpane feather from the shoulder or the rump? Also is this a natural color or dyed? Thanks for posting this pattern, Mike.
Re: Gray Ghost Soft Hackle
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2022 8:57 pm
by Roadkill
The natural-colored feathers are below the Coppery Brown feathers and toward the rump.
RIMG7362 by
William Lovelace, on Flickr
Re: Gray Ghost Soft Hackle
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2022 9:09 pm
by letumgo
Marvelous pattern Bill. I read the name and was expecting an adaptation of a grey ghost streamer, but was pleasantly surprised to see this beauty. Nice use of muskrat fur and glass beads to create the segmentation/aura. Bet it looks even nicer wet.
Very well done.
Re: Gray Ghost Soft Hackle
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2022 9:57 pm
by Fishnkilts
That's a cool looking fly. I had to look at the body a few times and re-read the dressing for it. I have to say using clear beads like that for the body is different, but I don't get out much.
Either way, I like it. But wouldn't all those beads make it sink too deep? Rookie question.
Re: Gray Ghost Soft Hackle
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2022 11:30 pm
by Roadkill
Fishnkilts wrote: ↑Fri Aug 26, 2022 9:57 pm
Either way, I like it. But wouldn't all those beads make it sink too deep? Rookie question.
Checking online, my 7 glass beads may add about .070g of weight to the fly, or about half the weight of a 1/8" copper bead head (.145g)
Re: Gray Ghost Soft Hackle
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2022 6:54 pm
by Mike62
God, I hate that hook, but you make it look really good. That's a very intriguing pattern, I may have to steal it.
That hook is my personal Kryptonite...
Re: Gray Ghost Soft Hackle
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2022 6:56 pm
by DUBBN
Mike62 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 6:54 pm
God, I hate that hook, but you make it look really
good. That's a very intriguing pattern, I may have to steal it.
That hook is my personal Kryptonite...
I love that hook. It gets a bad wrap as far as losing fish.
Re: Gray Ghost Soft Hackle
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2022 7:04 pm
by Roadkill
DUBBN wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 6:56 pm
I love that hook. It gets a bad wrap as far as losing fish.
I can lose fish on any hook!
Re: Gray Ghost Soft Hackle
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2022 8:36 pm
by DUBBN