Matt Green

Matt Green

Hook - Nymph style

Weight - Lead free wire

Thread - Olive green

Tail - CDL or grizzly hackle fibers

Ribbing - Green copper wire

Abdomen - Olive green dubbing

Wing case - Gray goose segment

Thorax - Hares ear dubbing

Brown Gacka

Brown Gacka

Hook - Long nymph/wet style

Thread - Black

Weight - Lead/non lead wire

Ribbing - Copper wire

Body - Brown dubbing

Shellback - Red pheasant chest feather or red hackle

Throat - Red pheasant chest feather or red hackle

Undertaker

Undertaker

Hook: Nymph style

Thread: Black

Weight: Lead wire

Tail: Black wool yarn or antron yarn

Backstrap: Black wool yarn or antron yarn

Ribbing: Flat silver tinsel

Body: Black wool yarn or antron yarn

Norm Albiston Podcast from Fly Fish Radio Episode #5

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Woodchuck Caddis

Woodchuck Caddis

Hook: Dry fly

Thread: Black

Body: Dubbing in your choice of color to match the caddis in your area

Wing: Woodchuck hairs

Hackle: Brown & grizzly mixed

Top Hopper

Top Hopper

Hook:  Dry fly, sizez 8-12

Thread: Black

Tail: Orange hackle fibers

Body: Olive green chenille extended over the tail by looping the chenille

Wing: Woodchuck, ending at or just past the bend of the hook, tied trude style

Hackle: Brown

Reference: http://www.flyanglersonline.com/articles/oldflies/2011/oldflies20110912.php

Tunkwanamid

Tunkwanamid

Chironomid

Hook - Straight or curved style

Thread - Black

Tag/rib - Oval silver tinsel

Body - Peacock herl

Breathers - White ostrich herl

Hot Mustard

Hot Mustard

Hook - Dry fly style

Thread - Black

Tail - Gold antron yarn

Body - Gold antron yarn

Rib - Grizzly hackle, palmered

This easily tied fly was Josephine Sedlecky-Borsum rendition of the Little Yellow Stone. It was favored among the locals as a fly that could be fished from midsummer into late fall. It could also be fished during the Big Golden Stone hatch. This fly was developed in the early 1960's.

Little Jewel

Little Jewel (Dubbed)

Hook - Mustad 3906 or equivalent

Thread - Black

Ribbing - Oval/round/flat silver tinsel

Body - Dubbing in your choice of color

Hackle - Brown hen

Thorax - Black dubbing

Little Jewel (Original chenille)

Hook - Mustad 3906 or equivalent

Thread - Black

Ribbing - Oval/round/flat silver tinsel

Body - Caddis green chenille

Hackle - Brown hen

Thorax - Black chenille

Tying Light

Here is a cool idea for a tying light for your fly tying area/station.

Prince Nymph

Prince Nymph

Hook - Mustad 3906 or equivalent

Weight - Lead wire

Thread - Black or brown

Tail - Brown biot

Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel

Body - Peacock herl

Collar - Brown hackle

Horns - White biot

Beadhead Prince Nymph

Hook – Mustad 3906B or equivalent 

Bead - Gold brass or tungsten

Weight - Lead wire 

Thread - Black 

Tail - Brown biot 

Ribbing – Oval silver tinsel

Body - Peacock herl

Collar - Brown hackle

Horns - White biot

From the Internet

"The Prince Nymph, known first as a Brown Forked-Tail Nymph, imitates nothing – and everything – simultaneously.  It has an inherent ‘bugginess’ that trout find it irresistible.  Its split biot tail is bold, the glossy green peacock herl shimmers in the current, the soft hackle collar breathes seductively, and the tinsel and white wings scream for attention.  It is your basic sub­sur­face attractor, one that has been catch­ing trout for decades.  Many devotees profess that it imitates stonefly nymphs.  Indeed, a Prince Nymph does resemble juvenile stoneflies.  But, it resembles juve­nile Christmas tree ornaments just about as well.  Perhaps trout take it as a stonefly, but a cased caddis larva, caddis pupa, mayfly or dobsonfly nymph, or even a drowned terrestrial seem equally plausi­ble. Does it matter?  Not a bit.  Prince Nymphs ap­peal to trout, and that’s what counts when you’re fill­ing the fly box or tying a clinch knot.

Doug Prince of Monterey, CA is often described as the originator of the Prince Nymph, but it was devel­oped and first tied in the 1930s by Don and Dick Olson, brothers from Bemidji, MN.  They called it the Brown Forked-Tail Nymph.  It acquired its princely name in a roundabout way during the 1940s.  Buz Buszek, namesake of the Federation of Fly Fishers’ annual award for fly tying excellence, owned a fly shop and mail-order business in Visalia, CA begin­ning in 1943.  He employed local tyers to supply flies for the shop.  Doug Prince was not a commercial fly tyer, but he was Buszek’s good friend and tied flies for him for one year in the 1940s.  Prince was a tal­ented fly tyer who knew California rivers well.  He tied his name­sake fly for California’s Kings River, but he called it the Brown Forked-Tail Nymph, presumably in refer­ence to the Olson original.  Buz Buszek was hur­riedly preparing a new mail-order catalog one day, and he wanted to in­clude Doug Prince’s peacock-bodied nymph that was so effective.  Buszek couldn’t remember the fly’s name, however, and in haste he just called it the “Prince Nymph”.  Buszek’s catalog was distributed throughout the West, and the fly at­tracted a loyal following.  Doug Prince’s name spread with the fly, although he played no part in its self-congratulatory name.  Doing so was not in his humble charac­ter:  “I tied what worked for me, and that’s all I ever really wor­ried about.”  Doug Prince received the FFF Buz Buszek Memorial Award in 1981 but said at the time that he had “no idea” why."

Edson Tigers

Edson Tiger - Dark

Hook - Mustad L87-3665A

Thread - Yellow

Tag - Flat gold tinsel

Tail - Yellow Hackle Tips

Body - Yellow Chenille

Wing - Brown bucktail dyed yellow

Throat - Red hackle fibers

Cheek - Edson brass eye

Head - Painted yellow then overcoated with UV resin

Forgotten Flies - Schmookler & Sils

*Forgotten Flies lists 6 recipes for Edson Tiger - Light

Edson Tiger - Light

Hook - Mustad L87-3665A

Thread - Black

Tag - Flat gold tinsel

Tail - Mandarin (I used barred wood duck)

Body - Peacock herl

Wing - Yellow bucktail

Topping - Red hackle tips

Cheek - Edson brass eye

Forgotten Flies - Schmookler & Sils

*Forgotten Flies lists 6 recipes for Edson Tiger - Light

Sanctuary

Sanctuary

Hook - Mustad 3399, 3906 or equivalent

Thread - Black

Tip - Flat gold tinsel

Ribbing - Flat gold tinsel

Body - Dark hare’s ear fur

Hackle - Brown hen

Troutgetter

Troutgetter

Hook: Curved nymph

Thread: Red

Backstrap: Peacock herl

Ribbing: Peacock herl

Body: Yellow chenille

Hackle: Brown hen

Murray

Murray

Hook - Streamer

Thread - Black

Tail - Red hackle fibers

Ribbing - Medium flat silver, followed by orange floss; counter wrap with fine silver wire

Body - Black floss

Throat - Orange hackle fibers

Wing - Siberian squirrel tail

Tying note - I substituted red fox squirreltail for the Siberian squirrel tail

McGinty Bucktail

McGinty Bucktail

Hook: Streamer

Thread: Black

Tail: Red duck or goose quill

Body: Black & yellow chenille

Wing: Brown bear

Throat: brown hackle fibers or brown hackle wound as a collar

Reference: Forgotten Flies

Macgregor Bucktail

Macgregor Bucktail

Hook: Streamer

Thread: Black

Tag: Flat silver tinsel

Tail: Golden pheasant crest

Ribbing: Flat silver tinsel

Body: Orange chenille

Throat: Grizzly hackle fibers

Wing: Gray squirrel tail

Cheeks: Jungle cock

Grey Mare

Grey Mare

Hook - Streamer style

Thread - Black

Tail - Scarlet duck or goose quill

Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel

Body - Flat silver tinsel

Throat - Brown hackle fibers

Wing - 2 Grizzly hackles back to back

Reference - John Veniard's Further Guide to Fly Dressing

Grizzly Kings

Grizzly King Hairwing

Hook: Streamer

Thread: Black

Tail: Red hackle fibers

Ribbing: Flat silver tinsel

Body: Green floss

Throat: Teal feather fibers

Wing: Squirrel tail

Eyes: Painted Black over white

Grizzly King #2

Hook: Streamer

Thread: Black

Tail: Red hackle fibers

Ribbing: Flat silver tinsel

Body: Green floss

Throat: Teal feather fibers

Wing: Grizzly hackle

Grizzly King #2 Variation

Hook: Streamer

Thread: Black

Tail: Red hackle fibers

Ribbing: Flat silver tinsel

Body: Green floss

Throat: Teal feather fibers

Wing: Squirrel tail

Hackle: Grizzly

Reference: Forgotten Flies

How to Prepare and Dye Peacock Herl Black

Norm Albiston Podcast from Fly Fish Radio Episode #3