Soft Hackle Pheasant Tail Hare's Ear - Soft Hackle. The combination of two of the deadliest flies available should be all that is required to be said about the Soft Hackle Pheasant Tail Hare's Ear. However if that isn't enough, this pattern is used by our entire crew and they explain they would never leave home without a couple of these in their tackle box. They use this fly to catch everything from trout, to bass. Ponds and Streams are areas that have proven to be highly successful as this scruffy pattern just imitates a wide variety of the aquatic life therefore making it easy prey for the hungry trout or bass.