Mark,
that's right, hackling can be very divers. I'm currently running through a book about the history of soft hackled flies. (Book was recently reviewed on Globalflyfi). It covers 200 years of writing about softhackles, referencing a lot of old books. Some of the books discuss dry as well. In some older books they tie in the hackle by the tip and wrap them using the steem as handle.
I was demonstrated this for soft hackles by Jeff Hintz during the sowbug. I tie them now this way.
Maybe I can look for the videos, when I'm over there for the next time. Was unable to make detailed plans, though.
Rene
mark romero wrote:
Rene, two videos you can get to sort of show you how diverse hackling can be, (because of course, the fish don't...............) are 1. Dave Brandt's volume of a new set of 4 by Catskill masters, and 2., one by Royce Dam which he was selling at the Sowbug when we were there. Both approaches work....yet they are fastly different. One is pure Catskill style, the other is a western approach. All the information you'll ever need is out there, you just gotta hunt it out. If you need help getting the Catskill videos, i can help. The other three in the "set" are, wets by Ralph Graves; streamers by Burt Darrow (our new president at the CFFC&M); and nymphs by Floyd Frankie. Lemme know, mark.......
