What do you use those small feahters on the side of a pheasant tail for?
They are much softer than the barbs off the center tail peicesx.
Rick
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What do you use those small feahters on the side of a pheasant tail for?
They are much softer than the barbs off the center tail peicesx.
Rick
Nymph tails & legs, for me. :)
larger soft-hackle patterns :D
Really, really small PTNs. Beacuse they are much softer and smaller in diameter I use them when I tie PTNs in 20,22,24 and so on down the line. Also as mentioned before they are great for legs on other nymphs as well.
Steve
Rick, try the Gimp. It uses those aftershafts or Lady Amherst pheasant undercoverts as wet fly or sometimes nymph.
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/feat...nada/can87.php
From fly tying terms.
After-Shaft:
The soft, small feather normally found at the base of bird's feathers. Some times called "philoplume" or "filo-plume."
Rick these aftershaft feathers can be used in Jack Gartside's Sparrow. The sparrow (nymph) uses other feathers from a pheasant.