Greetings all, We are in the middle of BWO time here in Southern CO. I have had a good year fishing soft hackles and would like to test out some new patterns
for the BWO hatch here. Our BWOs are 18-20 and pretty dark in the body. Any suggestions would be much appreciated! Thanks, Jay
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Favorite BWO Soft Hackle Pattern
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Posts: 7540 10/12/2009 15:24 Bulldog1935 |
here is my swimming BWO, which works like crazy.
A few hackle fibers for the tail, body is twisted flashabou and a quick fur dub I guess no reason you couldn't substitute a soft hackle for the dubbing 
here is a dun 
the rods are never obsolete - the marketing is.
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Posts: 59 10/12/2009 16:06 |
For BWOs I like a starling and dark bodied soft hackle on a size 19 Tiemco 102Y/103Y hook. The black lacquered hook looks just right on a soft hackle.
The body isn't all that important, but I currently use a dubbed body with the abdomen ribbed with a small copper wire and the thorax a little thicker. Use a mix of brown and black rabbit fur and olive synthethic to get the color right. That is to make me happy. I think brown or purple silk, brown, black or olive tying thread, or black flashabou bodies work just as well. Anything dark and spare usually works. I end my bodies at the hook point on these. However, the starling hackle works best and sometimes it helps to get a few of the fuzzy barbs in the mix. |
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Posts: 1930 10/12/2009 16:27 |
A couple ideas:
Dun hen soft hackle, Olive green Gossamer silk, gold wire rib, and BWO dry fly dubbing. 
My "early" attempts at Oliver Kite's early & late season Imperials; dun or honey dry fly hackles, Purple Gossamer silk, heron or Canada goose herl body & wire ribbing Cheers & Safe Fishing Bob PS - I seldom use any hooks smaller than a size 16 and have tied the above on nos. 14 & 16 hooks. |
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Posts: 153 10/12/2009 20:19 |
Am doing a lot right now beacause I'm going to fish California's Hot Creek Ranch this week, and the weather will be cold and rainy. I tie parachute and
cdc emergers for BWOs, and small duns. Tie some down to #26, just cdc fibers for a wing, thread body and a few olive deer hairs for floatation. Some fish there
are somewhat educated at the end of the season.
But I also fish flymphs in the film. Here's one. Had intended it to be a generic mayfly emerger/flymph, bicolor, 103 TMC #18, but it appears to have shagged into caddis. The rabbit hairs not only stayed coarse, my intent, but became antennae. With floatant on top the pattern rides low and in film; curved hook helps profile imitate the emerger. It is a shuck/tail, dark hare's ear, then golden stone Haretron, prepackaged stuff no mixing required. IMHO the bicolor concept of the EC Caddis kills, because of that emerging quality. I like a contrasting color, the olive shades I have didn't give me enough contrast, so I used the golden stone. It darkens a little with water, and seems to work fine. Added: I forgot to list the partridge hackle, from top of skin, grayish-blue. 1 1/2 turns. 
This is a dun-cripple soft hackle. It has traditional elements, wood duck, goose biot, Haretron wisps for thorax, and a hackle of (I think) of scrub jay. Could be Mourning dove. From a redtail hawk's leavings under a pine tree. 
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Posts: 64 10/13/2009 09:38 |
This one works well for me,
but I wouldn't call it imitative of a BWO - because I tie 'em on a #10 hook. But I don't see why one couldn't tie them on a #14-#16? And I bet they would work. Would probably switch from tinsel to wire ribbing if I was tying that small, though. 
"Westville Wizard" hook: Tiemco 3769 #10 thread: Uni Olive Dun 6/0 tag: medium Gold mylar tinsel body: Danville 'Olive' floss ribbing: xtra-small Silver mylar tinsel hackle: Grizzly hen But I'd say that joaniebo's first example above, is probably the most "correct" to match an emerging BWO? Olive and Dark Dun, being the key ingredients. You also might tie a few like joaniebo's, but with a very short and bulbous pair of slate wings, (like traditional wet fly wings, only fatter and much shorter...) and then a few sparse turns of (shorter) dark-ish dun hackle in front of them.
"From my observations I think that most of us spend too much time worrying about our tackle and too little time
learning the intimate characteristics of the fish and streams we fish most."
- Ray Bergman
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Posts: 252 10/13/2009 11:24 |
Thanks guys. I will be getting to the vise today to start in on some patterns, I appreciate the suggestions. Fishing was good last night on soft hackles.
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Posts: 176 10/13/2009 13:12 |
partridge and olive,dun hen and olive or starling and olive.no problem.
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Posts: 707 10/13/2009 16:03 |
Try the old Starling and Purple or Snipe and Purple on a #19 soft hackle hook. I'm not sure why, but fish hammer purple soft hackles during BWO hatches.
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Posts: 366 10/13/2009 17:38 |
No pics, but what I use is a #18 3906B, woodduck flank tail, pheasant tail body ribbed with fine gold wire, and a couple truns of grizzly hen hackle.
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Posts: 241 10/25/2009 07:45 |
The standard tying in the Uk
is the Poult bloa. yellow thread waxed, red dubbing. poult hackle. For the correct body dubbing Red squirrel was used. Other flies used were Orange partridge.greenwells.and indian yellow
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Posts: 124 10/29/2009 15:44 |
Please excuse the poor photo. |
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