Saturday, September 30, 2017

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

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

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

Saturday, September 16, 2017

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

Thursday, September 7, 2017

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

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

Monday, September 4, 2017

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

Sunday, September 3, 2017

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.

Saturday, September 2, 2017

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.