Priest

Priest

Hook: Salmon style

Thread: White then black for the head

Tag: Silver oval tinsel

Tail: White hackle fibers

Ribbing: Silver oval tinsel

Body: White/cream wool yarn

Throat: White hackle fibers

Wing: Blue krystal flash over white bucktail

Fulkro

Fulkro

Tag - Silver oval tinsel

Tip - Fluorescent orange floss

Tail - Red calf tail

Ribbing - Silver oval tinsel

Body - Black wool

Throat Hackle* - Brown

Wing - Red squirrel tail

Head color - Black

Hairwing Atlantic Salmon Flies (Color Plate 2 & Page 119) - Keith Fulsher & Charles Krom 

*Note - I prefer a "beard" style throat hackle. If YOU prefer a different method that's entirely up to YOU! Defeo style, collar style and pulled down etc 

Undertaker

Undertaker 

Category - Atlantic Salmon, Steelhead

Hook - Gamakatsu T10-6H

Thread - Black

Tag - Oval silver tinsel

Butt - Green & red floss, uni stretch

Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel

Body - Peacock herl

Collar - Black hen hackle

Wing - Black bucktail or squirrel tail

UV Resin

October Copper

October Copper

Hook: Mustad 36890

Thread: Black

Tag: Oval silver tinsel

Tail: Golden pheasant tippets

Butt: Black wool/dubbing

Ribbing: Oval silver tinsel

Body: Flat copper tinsel

Throat: Orange guinea hen

Wing: Red fox squirrel

Toe to Toe

Buckskin Nymph

Buckskin Nymph

Hook - Mustad 3906

Thread - Black

Body - Natural buckskin or synthetic equivalent

Tying Ideas

Add a tail

Add throat hackle

Add a wire rib

Add a tinsel flashback

Add a peacock herl/dubbing thorax

Tie it as a soft hackle

Tie it as a bead head

Color the buckskin with permanent markers

Be creative. Experiment.

George Bodmer of Colorado Springs, Colorado, originated this pattern.

Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art - Terry Hellekson

Brown's Crayfish

Brown's Crayfish

Hook - Mustad R73-9671 or R74-9672, size 4 to 8

Weighting (optional) - Lead/lead free wire

Thread - Black

Claws - V-shaped bunch of fox squirrel tail

Body - Dubbing or wool yarn (brown, orange, olive or black)

Hackle - Rooster saddle, palmered

Shell - Turkey tail or wing fibers, epoxied

Orange Asher

Orange Asher

Hook - Mustad 94840 or equivalent

Thread - Orange 

Hackle - Grizzly

Body: Orange thread, floss, antron yarn, dubbing, uni-stretch, z-lon etc

After learning thread control in the beginner fly tying classes I took many years ago, it was time to tie some new flies with 2 materials. The instructor chose the Orange Asher as a place to begin.

This was followed by a change in the body floss from orange to red to give you the "Bloody Asher". Thats the name I was told by the instructor but I have also heard it called "Bloody Butcher".

Other variations would simply be tied using different colors of floss, tying it with peacock herl is the "Griffiths Gnat". I have purchased flies with a cream colored dubbed body and had tremendous success with it on the Green River in Utah. Another variation use grizzly hackle fibers for a tail and also has a gold tinsel rib. Try tying it with different body materials and different colors of hackle. The options are all up to you.

Reference: http://www.evergreentrout.org/Flies/OrangerAsher.htm

Handi-Grip

I have a herniated disc in my back that is extremely painful when I have to bend down. 

I keep the Handi-Grip near my fly tying to pick up materials that I occasionaly drop on the floor.