{"id":875,"date":"2017-02-13T12:31:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T10:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/?page_id=875"},"modified":"2022-03-17T16:49:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T14:49:04","slug":"soft-hackles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/articles\/soft-hackles\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft Hackles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-875\"  class=\"panel-layout\" >\n<div id=\"pg-875-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" >\n<div id=\"pgc-875-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" >\n<div id=\"panel-875-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" >\n<div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><\/p>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_880\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-880\" style=\"width: 358px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sean-Mills-Holsloot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-880 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sean-Mills-Holsloot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sean-Mills-Holsloot.jpg 358w, https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sean-Mills-Holsloot-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Mills who favours Soft Hackle patterns for the trout streams near Cape Town<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"pgc-875-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" >\n<div id=\"panel-875-0-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" >\n<div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><\/p>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n<p><strong>Ed Herbst writes:\u00a0 <\/strong><em>\u2018Soft hackles are one of the most underrated patterns in the Cape and for the life of me I can\u2019t think why. On the day they can be unbeatable.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the word from Cape Piscatorial Society committee member <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomsutcliffe.co.za\/fly-fishing\/fly-tying\/item\/1077-protea-fly-fisher-matt-richs-favourite-stream-fly-selection-%E2%80%93.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Rich<\/a> who has represented his country at both junior and senior levels.<\/p>\n<p><em>Piscator <\/em>has reflected the enduring fascination of this ancient and always-deadly pattern in several articles which are listed below.<\/p>\n<p>The internet provides a wealth of information on Soft Hackles both in historical terms and on video clip\u00a0on how to tie them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/WC-Stewart-and-the-Soft-Hackled-Spider-Gordon-McKay.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WC Stewart and the Soft Hackled Spider - Gordon McKay<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Tying-the-soft-hackle-spider-Ed-Herbst.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tying the soft hackle spider - Ed Herbst<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-March-Brown-Spider.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The March Brown Spider - Peter Smith<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Fishing-Soft-Hackles.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fishing soft hackle flies - Sean Mills<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Small-Stream-Soft-Hackle-Ed-Herbst.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Small Stream Soft Hackle - Ed Herbst<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Return-of-Tenkara-Bernard-WT-Coetzee.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Return of Tenkara - Bernard WT Coetzee<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fosaf.org.za\/read-FOTM-317.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Karoo Soft Hackle Midge - Alan Hobson<\/a><\/em> (This article was first posted on the Federation of South African Flyfishers (FOSAF) website and is published here with permission)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Herbst writes:\u00a0 \u2018Soft hackles are one of the most underrated patterns in the Cape and for the life of me I can\u2019t think why. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":843,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-875","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32667,"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/875\/revisions\/32667"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}