Tying the Olive and Partridge Soft Hackle Fly Pattern - Ep 135 PF

[@davidveilleux4688]

Nice pattern. Like the curve hook idea . Thanks for sharing

[@byronnielsen532]

Looks to be a simple but effective tie. Thanks.

[@PiscatorFlies]

The best flies IMHO are the simple ones. Tight lines!

[@tommelville8771]

Nice simple and easy. Thanks

[@PiscatorFlies]

Thanks, Tom, much appreciated.

[@seanmooney3907]

Nice fly. Thanks for sharing, All the best, Sean

[@PiscatorFlies]

Thanks Sean. Much appreciated.

[@bruceacphoto5240]

Very well presented. tyvm!

[@rabbithole_flies]

nice tie Darren!

[@PiscatorFlies]

patricia, thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment. Cheers

[@markBUMP]

Love the flies brother!

[@PiscatorFlies]

Much appreciated!

[@minkos61]

Great looking Fly Darren Thanks for sharing . Ernie

[@PiscatorFlies]

Thanks, Ernie! I'm glad you like the fly.

[@timh5395]

Thumbs up. Nice fly

[@PiscatorFlies]

Thanks Tim

[@stuartc.fishing5281]

Your channel deserves more subs your fly tying tutorials are amazing

[@PiscatorFlies]

Thanks a million!

[@joeduca8582]

Chimo Darren, I smiled when I saw the red dot by subscriptions after a couple of days of anticipation. I thought you went AWOL, lol. Nice soft hackle. I like the thread bodies too, nice and slim, fits the overall sparseness. I think the thorax adds to the shape too, sort of teardrop when the legs flow back. I never made the connection of tail = mayfly, tailless = caddis, makes sense, therefore the curved hook, preferences aside. I also prefer straight eye hooks. Thanks for that explaination, I just thought of soft hackles as a simple impressionistic bug. An article on wet flies by Steven Bird intitled "Dabblers" in the summer 2018 Flyfishing & Tying Journal really opened my eyes as to wet fly styles and construction. I've tried tying paired wing wetflies but they ended up looking like the clump wings that I've tied so I stuck with that style. But I love how Loch style flies look, especially the 200R hooks Bird used for the dabblers in the article. However my biggest stream brown came on a #12 grouse and orange, tied on a dry fly hook. Excellent advise and techniques in this tutorial "professor", thanks for furthering my "enlightenment". Looking forward to the next one. Cheers 👍😎🍻

[@PiscatorFlies]

Chimo Joe. Yes, I've been slacking a little on my end. lol it's getting busy in the fly mines here and I have to keep Kaiser busy while school is off for the summer. I used to tie a few softhackles on the Mustad C53s (similar to the 200R) but I never found much success on that hook style. It's a little long and I think I was missing hook sets. The TMC 101 is a nice hook for them as well. Thanks for the heads up on the article. I'll try to pick up a copy. Cheers

[@joeduca8582]

Piscator Flies lol, fly mines, that's a good one.😁 I figured you were busy, you have to train Kaiser to be an apprentice, he can prep your materials. That'll keep him busy and you can increase production. Then he can take over the business when you retire. 😯 Yeah the last 3 or 4 issues of ff&tj have been excellent. I'm actually reading it cover to cover instead of looking at the "centerfolds" (flies ;-) Just glad to hear all is well, take care and cheers 👍😎🎣 (yeah the 101 would be an excellent choice, or a 3366, my favorite)

[@garybon.]

Nice tie Darren! Any fishing videos in the works??

[@PiscatorFlies]

Thanks. Nothing in the works for the moment. Its been too hot to fish the creeks the past couple weeks. We had some good rain this week though, steelhead / salmon should be running in higher number soon.

[@jodybarker6873]

Looks good Darren! What vice are you using?

[@PiscatorFlies]

Thanks! I'm using the Griffin Mongoose. I have 2 of them, one I use for my production work and this one for videos. My video vise is the one I used to tie on for production. It's got over 50,000 flies tied on it. The newer one has a mostly black finish and a few little upgrades. Cheers

[@RosalindJLee]

looks like they would fool a fish. poor fish!

[@PiscatorFlies]

Thanks Rosalind.