BWO Hot Tag Wet Fly Tying Video

In this video, Simon ties a wonderful BWO soft hackle. Soft hackles are traditionally swung, but their sparse design allows them to be so much more than a swung wet fly. Simon developed this pattern for a late season trip to the spring fed creeks of the Midwest’s Driftless area. The fly quickly proved productive when tagged behind another, more buoyant dry. Trout, especially in spring creeks, get keyed in on more vulnerable insects. Ones that are stilllborn, actively emerging, or have become crippled in their emergence. This fly fished in tandem with another dry mimics a bug in trouble rather than the typical ascending nymph that a swung soft hackle imitates. Since then, the fly has become a staple in Simon’s box not only from its productivity, but also its versatility. Its simple construction makes it attractive when needing to fill your box. Few flies can be swung, stripped, fished tagged off of a dry in the film, and nymphed. This makes this style of fly very important and every angler should carve out space ion their box for flies of this likeness.