Wickhams Fancy

Wickhams Fancy

Tail - Brown

Ribbing - Fine gold wire

Bodu - Gold tinsel

Body hackle - Brown

Wing - Slate duck or goose quill segments

Hackle - Brown

Durham Ranger

 

Durham Ranger

Tip - Yellow floss

Tail - Pheasant crest

Tag - Peacock herl

Ribbing - Gold tinsel

Body - Claret floss

Hackle - Claret

Wing - Golden pheasant tippets, jungle cock up each side

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth

A stripped down wet fly conversion of the original Salmon Fly

Fire Fly

Fire Fly

Tip - Red floss

Ribbing - Silver tinsel

Body - Black wool

Hackle - Guinea

Wing - Slate duck or goose quill segments

Author's Note

Also made orange body, rib gold, brown hackle tail, brown hackle, white wings.

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth

Dark Fox

Dark Fox

Tip - Silver tinsel

Tail - Dun hackle

Body - Rabbit fur

Wing - Slate duck or goose quill segments

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth

Dark Cowdung

Dark Cowdung

Tip - Gold tinsel

Body - Dark olive dubbing

Hackle - Brown

Wing - Slate duck or goose quill segments

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth

Caddis

Caddis

Tip - Brown floss

Body - Peacock herl

Hackle - Brown

Wing - Light slate duck or goose quill segments

Authoe's Note

Also made green floss body, yellow hackle down body, slate wings. 

Also made olive dubbing body, picked out at shoulder, brown mallard tail.

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth

Lightning Bug

Lightning Bug

Tip - Orange floss

Ribbing - Brown floss

Body - Black floss

Hackle - Gray

Wing - Slate duck or goose quill segments

Author's Note

Also made gray dubbing body, yellow floss tag, rib gold, gray hackle down body, furnace hackle at shoulder, brown turkey wing.

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth

Hare's Ear Diawl Bach

Hare's Ear Diawl Bach

Tail - Coque De Leon Fibers 

Rib - Krinkle Mirror Flash or Mirage Opal

Body - Hare's Ear Dubbing 

Beard - Coque De Leon Fibers

Phil Rowley Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqX9kF-pK4c

Cahill

Cahill

Tip - Gold tinsel

Tail - Brown mallard

Body - Rabbits fur

Hackle - Brown

Wing - Lemon wood duck

Author's Note

Also made brown mallard wing, gray mallard tail.

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictiomary - J E Willmarth

California Coachman

California Coachman

Tip - Red floss

Tail - Scarlet

Body - Peacock herl

Hackle - Brown

Wing - Red over white duck or goose quill segnents

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth

Ash Fox

Ash fox

Tip - Silver tinsel

Tail - Dun hackle

Body - Rabbits fur

Hackle - Brown hackle

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth

Blonde Wulff

Blond Wulff

Wing - Bleached Elk

Tail - Bleached Elk

Body - Yellow thread or tan dubbing

Hackle - Light Badger,ginger or cree

https://www.flyanglersonline.com/oldsite/flytying/fotw2/012405fotw.php

Callibaetis Wulff

Callibaetis Wulff

Wings - Calf tail

Tail - Pheasant tail

Ribbing - Gold wire

Back - Pheasant tail

Body - Medium tan dubbing

Hackle - Dun and grizzly

Fly Tyer Magazine - Autumn 2024

Carolina Wulff

Carolina Wulff

Tail - Golden pheasant tippet

Body - Peacock herl and yellow floss

Wing - Calf tail

Hackle - Coachman brown

http://www.rockyrivertu.org/carolina-wulff1.html

Guinea Fly

Guinea Fly

Tail - Pheasant tail

Ribbing - Gold Tinsel

Body - Green floss

Hackle - Brown

Wing - Guinea

Author's Note

Also made with scarlet body and hackle and white tail.

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth

Golden Ibis

Golden Ibis

Tail - Scarlet

Body - Gold tinsel

Hackle - Scarlet

Wing - Scarlet duck or goose quill segments

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth

Whirling Blue Dun

Whirling Blue Dun

Tail - Brown

Body - Gray dubbing

Hackle - Brown

Wing - Slate duck or goose quill segments

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth

Tim's Hopper

Tim's Hopper

Tim Drummond

Hook - 3XL nymph, size 4-10

Thread - Yellow

Tail - Red Krystal Flash

Back/Body/Wing - Tan and Yellow 2mm Foam

Rib - 4X Tippet 

Hackle - Brown

Hot Spot - Orange 3mm Foam

Legs - Amber Flexi-Foss or Sexi-Floss or Centepede legs

Charlie Craven Video

Anolomink

Anolomink

Ribbing - Orange floss

Body - Black floss

Wings - Black hackle tied spent

Hackle - Badger

Walt Dette Dry Fly Catalog

https://detteflies.com/blogs/the-dette-project/anolomink

Whirling Dun

Whirling Dun

Tip - Silver tinsel

Tail - Brown hackle

Ribbing - Gray floss

Body - Brown floss

Hackle - Brown

Wing - Slate duck or goose quill segment.

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth