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Triple Stacker Soft Hackle

Insect Species Icon Quill Gordon, Blue Wing Olive, Hendrickson and 7 others
Difficulty Icon Medium - 5-7 Min
Water Category Icon Coldwater

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Tying Recipe
  • Hook: Natural bend 2x long 2x wide size #10
  • Thread: UTC 70 denier black
  • Tag: Krystal flash copper coated in clear UV resin
  • Tail: Hen saddle natural
  • Body: Turkey biot quills black
  • Thorax: Ostrich herl brown
  • Wing: 2 starling feathers natural underneath 1 hen saddle natural
  • Hook: Any naturally curved long shanked hook will work. The curve in the shank needs to be slight.
  • Thread: Thin diameter thread works best here, as it keeps the profile and proportions clean. Go as thin as you are comfortable with, but try not to go thicker than 8/0 or 70 denier. Use the same color as the body.
  • Tag: Use any flash that you like. This tag is supposed to be a hot spot so any color is great.
  • Body: You can use synthetic quills for a flatter body, or d-rib or midge tubing can be a great synthetic that will result in ribbing.
  • Thorax: Dubbing can work great here. For more of a flowy thorax, use some dubbing with longer individual fibers and tease them out with a bodkin.
  • Wing: Use any three feathers that you like. Be sure that at least the lead feather is longer than the inside two.

This can be a fun fly to play around with color variations. The three different soft hackle feathers allow you to make some pretty colorful wings by mixing the colors within the hackles, especially for salmon specific flies. Tie up this fly to be a bright attractor, or tie it smaller and color accurate to the forage in your local systems for a great high water soft hackle that will push some water.

This is a great high water wet fly that will push a lot more water than most other wets. This is due to the three different hackle feathers up front to really keep that wing spread out. This makes this a good fly to really get those lateral line reactions in high/ off color water.

In larger sizes, fish this fly as with a traditional swing approach by casting across and downstream by about 45 degrees. Fish the same area for a few casts, and take a few steps down stream and repeat. In smaller sizes, this fly can be fished as a tag off the lead fly under an indicator, as the tag on a euro nymph rig, or even as the dropper off of a dry fly. Try to give this fly a little swing at the end of the drifts to get any reaction strikes from fish below you.

Blue Wing Olive

Regional Hatch Chart Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Region: West
Blue Wing Olive
Sizes: #16 - #24
Region: Northwest
Blue Wing Olive
Sizes: #16 - #24
Region: East
Blue Wing Olive
Sizes: #16 - #24
Region: Southeast
Blue Wing Olive
Sizes: #16 - #24
Region: Midwest
Blue Wing Olive
Sizes: #16 - #24

Brown Drake

Regional Hatch Chart Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Region: West
Brown Drake
Sizes: #10 - #14
Region: Northwest
Brown Drake
Sizes: #10 - #14
Region: East
Brown Drake
Sizes: #10 - #14
Region: Midwest
Brown Drake
Sizes: #10 - #14

Green Drake

Regional Hatch Chart Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Region: West, Northwest, Midwest
Green Drake
Sizes: #8 - #14
Region: East
Green Drake
Sizes: #8 - #14

Hendrickson

Regional Hatch Chart Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Region: East, Midwest
Hendrickson
Sizes: #10 - #16

Isonychia

Regional Hatch Chart Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Region: East
Isonychia
Sizes: #12 - #18
Region: Southeast
Isonychia
Sizes: #12 - #18
Region: Midwest
Isonychia
Sizes: #12 - #18

Light Cahill

Regional Hatch Chart Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Region: East
Light Cahill
Sizes: #12 - #20
Region: Midwest
Light Cahill
Sizes: #12 - #20
Region: Northwest
Light Cahill
Sizes: #12 - #20

Mahogany Dun

Regional Hatch Chart Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Region: West, Northwest
Mahogany Dun
Sizes: #14 - #20
Region: East, Midwest
Mahogany Dun
Sizes: #14 - #20

March Brown

Regional Hatch Chart Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Region: West, East
March Brown
Sizes: #10 - #14
Region: Northwest
March Brown
Sizes: #10 - #14
Region: Midwest
March Brown
Sizes: #10 - #14

PMD

Regional Hatch Chart Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Region: West, Northwest, East, Southeast, Midwest
PMD
Sizes: #14 - #20

Quill Gordon

Regional Hatch Chart Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Region: East, Southeast
Quill Gordon
Sizes: #12 - #16

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