Tying Tuesday: Jigged Streamers, Mayflies, and Soft Hackles

With fall proper across the nook, this week’s Tying Tuesday focuses on patterns which you could run out and use proper now. From a jigged trout streamer, to a lethal easy mayfly sample, to an fascinating mushy hackle, the one factor we’re lacking is an effective nymph.

Main off this week is Egan’s Poacher, a beautiful little jigged trout streamer, tied by Charlie Craven. Jigged trout streamers are amongst my favourite flies to make use of, however they get much less love than they deserve. I believe they’re even simpler than normal streamers to fish from shore, and from a drift boat, these flies are lethal. I extremely suggest tying some up for fall fishing.

Up subsequent is an fascinating mayfly sample that makes use of simply two supplies. The parents at Savage Flies name this the Mark One Mod Zero, as a result of it’s essentially the most primary mayfly sample on the market. By altering the scale and shade, you’ll be able to imitate all kinds of mayflies.

Rounding out this week’s group of movies is a one-feather mushy hackle fly that appears prefer it’ll fish, particularly throughout the fall blue-wing hatches out West. I don’t fish mushy hackles almost as a lot as I ought to, so I would tie a number of of those up and head to river actual quickly.