calls for woodcock. Don’t have woodcock. Need substitute for “deepest red underwing covert feather from a woodcock’s wing”.
HELP!!
How about the red feathers from a pheasant?
I’ve got quail that looks like a pretty close match. Let me know if you’d like some.
Regards,
Scott
Have you looked at any quail wings?
Golden Pheasant has some read feathers.
I just pulled out an American woodcock skin and found no red feathers. Is this a British pattern? Maybe you can find a picture of a woodcock on the web.
Use the rusty brown feathers on a Partridge…or a grouse…or a church-window…or a hen… 
From what I can tell, soft-hackles are soft-hackles.
Hey, Betty - just tie up a few parachute Adams and be done with it ;). Sorry I can’t help in your search.
kelly.
Hey Betty here is a link to the eurasian Wookcock with pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scolopax_rusticola
Ghost
Hi Betty,
The reddish/brown feathers from a cock golden pheasant’s wing are a really good substitute for woodcock; in fact, it can be hard to tell the difference sometimes.
- Jeff
See??? I knew I could count on you!!! Got golden pheasant, got hen pheasant, got a grouse! I can do it!! <Kelly … I already tied up a couple dozen Adams!!> Thank you all!!!
Hehehehehe…:mrgreen::lol:Go get 'em, girl!
Kelly.
You have to watch what that fellow from down under told you, he posted a pattern with a snipe hackle. Now in my younger days we could take those boys from the big cities up north snipe hunting every summer. They never caught any. Next thing he will be using unicorn tail hair for a wing on some fly or the other.
And here I was just about to suggest a Unicorn Wulff with a Centaur Tail nymph as a dropper …
- Jeff
Uncle Jesse
there are snipes it a wading bird not very big, and yes I have taken people snipe hunting and lmao, know they were standing out in the middle of a field holding a gunney sack and flashlight.
Ghost
Yes, I have actually hunted snipe with a shotgun while chasing Bobwhite Quail. Just picking at Betty and Jeff a little. I believe a snipe a small cousin of a woodcock.
Don’t know what you’re worried about, Betty, the bluegills will eat it no matter what feather you use
Is this new pattern a… spider?
Ed
It is <shudder> a spider … HOWEVER it is a spider ala Roger Fogg in his North Country Trout Flies book. It’s been promised (:roll:) to be the very best trout fly ever devised … ever.
Ohh, that one! Hmmm, that absolutely must have woodcock to work.
- Jeff