Serendipitous Soft Hackle
Didn't seem right to have Serendipitous emergers, nymphs, and cripples and not have a soft hackle, so ...
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Started this one out just like the Serendipitous nymph, but finished with a few wraps of partridge instead of the legs and wing case.
Haven't fished but one soft hackle pattern since I moved to Montana, so that's going on four years. Fished the Serendipitous soft hackle today, using a down and across swing through some colorblind, nearsighted, dumb and starving fishies with some interesting results ...
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... and ...
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... and several more pretty much like those guys.
After fishing an FEB Skwala, the PSC, a Serendipitous emerger and the cripple over about four hours, I was ready to just let a fly swing. May have to start doing that with the soft hackle more often.
John