Re: Fishing soft hackles
Originally Posted by
sagefisher
Davy Wooton has a style of casting that he calls ?A Cast of Flies?, where he uses 3 flies, many of them soft hackles, and he makes short casts, basically doing a High Sticking It style of drift where he casts upstream a sort distance and raises his rod really high as the flies go by then lowers the rod as they pass him. His top fly is fished right on or just under the surface and in a way it is his strike indicator, plus may occasionally catch a fish. He starts in close then slowly works the flies out, then moves a few feet and does it again.
Sage, this is actually a method as old as fly fishing itself.
It was taught to me by my grandfather
(He probably learned it from Walton )
The simpler the outfit, the more skill it takes to manage it, and the more pleasure one gets in his achievements.
--- Horace Kephart