[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"learn-glossary-soft-hackle":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"aliases":6,"body":11,"category":28,"definitionShort":29,"description":17,"disciplineTags":30,"extension":31,"meta":32,"navigation":33,"path":34,"relatedCards":35,"relatedTerms":38,"seo":43,"sourceRef":44,"stem":45,"term":5,"__hash__":46},"learn_glossary\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary\u002Fsoft-hackle.md","Soft Hackle",[7,8,9,10],"soft-hackle","soft hackle wet","wet fly","soft-hackled wet",{"type":12,"value":13,"toc":24},"minimark",[14,18,21],[15,16,17],"p",{},"The soft-hackle is older than dry-fly fishing — British and Yorkshire anglers were tying them in the 1700s. The design is minimal: a thread body, a slim dubbed thorax, and a sparse turn or two of soft webby hackle (partridge, grouse, hen) wound at the front. No wings, no flash, no bead.",[15,19,20],{},"The point is the hackle. Soft fibers fold back on the cast, then breathe and pulse as the fly drifts and swings under the surface — every twitch reads to a trout as an emerging caddis kicking through the film.",[15,22,23],{},"Fish them on a downstream swing, like a tiny streamer: cast across, let the line tighten, hold the rod tip into the bank and follow the swing through. Most strikes come at the end of the swing when the fly rises toward the surface. A two-fly team (size 14 partridge-and-orange ahead of a size 16 partridge-and-yellow) is the classic Yorkshire setup.",{"title":25,"searchDepth":26,"depth":26,"links":27},"",2,[],"fly","A traditional wet-fly style with a soft webby hen or partridge hackle wound at the head. Pulses on the swing and reads as an emerging caddis, mayfly, or generic \"something rising.\" Old-school, devastating in a hatch.",[28],"md",{},true,"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary\u002Fsoft-hackle",[36,37],"reading-the-surface-film","streamer-basics",[39,40,41,42],"emerger","swing","surface-film","caddis",{"description":17},null,"learn\u002Fglossary\u002Fsoft-hackle","ByOlIRqaQx_S2pYbWusVBSqtDjJomgvomlVQsjqKoyU"]