Shane Stalcup's No Hackle BWO

This is a dicey one for a couple reasons. Stalcup didn’t invent the No Hackle, and his version of the No Hackle has hackle on it. In our Nerdom, you just can’t do those things. While I normally would never count a fly that a slight riff from a very famous pattern I just like this version a lot, and the commercial version tied by Solitude is just too good. Stalcup was an amazing fly tyer and student of the infamous “All Father” of mayflies, Rene Harrop. Unfortunately, Stalcup left the world way too early at age 48 but his flies were so far ahead of his time, many of them are still top choices in our fly bins. Stalcup was one of the all-time greats in fly designs.