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Soft Hackle Pheasant Tail

Nymph · Trout · Grayling · Intermediate · 3 versions

Classic Recipe

• Hook Standard nymph, 14-18
• Thread Brown 8/0

Materials

• Tail Pheasant tail fibers (short)
• Body Pheasant tail fibers (wrapped)
• Rib Copper wire (counter-wrap)
• Thorax Peacock herl (2 strands)
• Hackle Hungarian partridge (1-2 wraps)

How to tie it

1. Mount hook, tie in tail and wire
2. Wrap pheasant body, counter-wrap wire
3. Wrap peacock thorax
4. Wrap 1-2 turns partridge hackle
5. Whip finish

Other versions

2 more in the app: Fly Fish Food Tie, Pheasant Tail Soft Hackle.

Tying videos

• Soft Hackle Pheasant Tail — Tim Flagler (Orvis)
• Soft Hackle Pheasant Tail — Fly Fish Food (YouTube)
• Soft Hackle Pheasant Tail — Fly Fish Food (Fly Fish Food (tutorial))
• Soft Hackle Pheasant Tail — BCFlyguys (YouTube)
• Soft Hackle Pheasant Tail — Davie McPhail (YouTube)
• Soft Hackle Pheasant Tail — Backyard Angling (YouTube)
• Soft Hackle Pheasant Tail — InTheRiffle (YouTube)
• Soft Hackle Pheasant Tail — Arkansas Fishing Adventures (YouTube)
• Soft Hackle Pheasant Tail — lelandfly (YouTube)

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