soft hackle

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Don't have any pictures but there are many feathers you can use that work well. Starling, partridge, chest feathers off a peacock and that green feather off the back of a mallard just to name a few. Many ways to tie a soft hackle but I think wrapping the feather is probably the least preferable. The beauty of a soft hackle is that the stlye of fishing that you do on a river presents the fly the first. Not the line not the leader- no need for a drag free drift. Probably the most effective and easy way to fish or learn to fly fish there is.
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