Caddis Nymph

Caddis Nymph

Hook - Nymph/wet style

Thread - UTC Woodduck

Body and Thorax - Light brown floss body; dark brown floss thorax

Legs - Guinea hen fibers

Antennae - Very fine peacock herl sword fibers

Substitute tying thread tapered to shape; thorax colored with brown marker

Substitute a stronger more durable material for the antennae

Reference

The American Fly Fisher Magazine - Summer 2013 Volume 39 Number 3

Fly-Fishing: Some New Arts and Mysteries - J C Mottram

Katoodle Bug

Katoodle Bug

Hook – Standard wet fly, size 6-10

Thread – White and black

Tail – Grey mallard flank

Body – Blue floss or Uni-Stretch rear half, yellow wool front half, small band of orange

Hackle – Brown hackle- beard style

Wing – Mottled turkey

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Royal Squirrel

Royal Squirrel

Hook - Mustad 9671, size 8 (or your favorite streamer style hook)

Thread - Black

Tail - Peacock herl

Body – Red uni-stretch

Wing – Gray squirrel tail

Reference – Fly Anglers On Line (FAOL) Archive

Herter Brothers

Herter Brothers

Hook - Straight eye streamer hook

Thread - Black

Body segments - Oval or flat silver tinsel

Wings - Brown, red and grizzly (chinchilla) marabou

Reference - Minnows of North America and Their Streamer Imitations - George L Herter

Samuel R Slaymaker II Flies

Little Brook Trout Bucktail

As per Bates

Hook: size: 2-12, 6x long

Head: Black

Tail: A very small bunch of bright green bucktail, under or over which is a section cut from bright red floss, both slightly longer then the gap of the hook.

Body: Wound with cream colored spun fur

Ribbing: Narrow flat silver tinsel

Throat: A small bunch of bright orange bucktail, the same length as the tail. 

Wing: Of four very small separated bunches of hair, extending slightly beyond the tail.  A very small bunch of white bucktail over which is a very small bunch of bright orange bucktail, slightly blended.  Over this is a very small bunch of bright green bucktail, topped with a very small bunch of barred badger hair

Cheeks: Jungle Cock

Little Brown Trout Bucktail

As per Bates, with a slight alteration*

Hook: size: 2-12, 6x long

Head: Black

Tail: A very small breast feather, with the dark center removed, from a ring neck pheasant.  The feather is as long as the gap of the hook and curves upward.

Body: Wound with white spun wool

Ribbing: Copper wire (narrow flat gold tinsel may be substituted, *I used medium oval copper tinsel)

Throat: None

Wing: Of four very small separated bunches of hair, extending slightly beyond the tail.  A very small bunch of yellow bucktail over which is a very small bunch of reddish-orange bucktail, slightly blended.  Over this is a very small bunch of medium dark squirrel tail, topped and slightly blended with a very small bunch of dark brown squirrel tail. 

Cheeks: Jungle Cock

Little Rainbow Trout Bucktail

As per Bates

Hook: size: 2-12, 6x long

Head: Black

Tail: A very small bunch of bright green bucktail, slightly longer then the gap of the hook.

Body: Wound with pinkish-white fur

Ribbing: Narrow flat silver tinsel

Throat: A small bunch of pink bucktail, the same length as the tail. 

Wing: Of four very small separated bunches of hair, extending slightly beyond the tail.  A very small bunch of white bucktail over which is a very small bunch of pink bucktail, slightly blended.  Over this is a very small bunch of bright green bucktail, topped with a very small bunch of natural badger hair

Cheeks: Jungle Cock

Reference - Samuel R Slaymaker II in Streamer Fly Tying & Fishing -  Joseph D Bates

Mighty Atom

Mighty Atom

(Mike Martinek)(Art of Angling Journal)

Hook - Wet, nymph or casting streamer

Tail - Red floss or antron yarn, cut short

Body - Twisted copper wire

Wing - Orange and brown bucktail, sparse

Hackle - Orange, folded and pulled back as a collar

Head - Red thread with painted white eye and black pupil

Note: A "casting streamer" hook refers to a hook that is 3xl or 4xl long and in sizes #2-10 where a "streamer" or "trolling streamer" hook is 6xl, 8xl or longer, and usually in sizes #1-2

Brown Owl & Improved Brown Owl

Brown Owl

Hook - Mustad R75-79580 or equivalent

Thread - Brown

Body - Oval gold tinsel

Underwing - Deer hair

Overwing - Teal flank feather

Collar - Grizzly hackle fibers (trim off top fibers)

The Brown Owl was created by Bob Broad of Errol New Hampshire and is best used to imitate the large Stoneflies that hatch on the area rivers.

The Brown Owl | Global FlyFisher | This very buggy looking streamer-slash-stonefly-slash-nymph caught my eye. Such a fly should be able to catch almost any kind of trout

Improved Brown Owl

Hook - Mustad R75-79580 or equivalent

Thread - Fire orange

Body - Gold embossed tinsel

Underwing - Deer hair

Overwing - Teal flank feather

Throat - Grizzly hackle fibers

Thorax - Peacock herl

Black Bear Red Butt SBS

Tie in thread and silver oval tinsel behind the hook return.

Wrap back to the barb of the hook.

Wrap the tinsel forward. About 4-6 turns is enough.

Tie in the tag material.

Wrap tag material forward.

Tie in black hackle fibers for the tail and wrap all materials back to the hook return to make a smooth underbody.

Tie in the ribbing tinsel and the body material.

Wrap boody material forwrd followed by the tinsel ribbing. Tie in black hackle fibers for the throat.

Tie on the wing material and wrap a neat head.

Finished fly with tail.

Finished fly without tail.

Black Bear Red Butt

Hook: Salmon type

Thread: Black

Tip: Silver oval tinsel

Tag: Red floss/uni-stretch/yarn etc

Tail: Black hackle fibers

Ribbing: Silver oval tinsel

Body: Black floss/uni-stretch/yarn etc

Throat: Black hackle fibers

Wing: Black bear or squirrel

Numerous websites/books have this fly tied with/without a tail so I tied both

Changing the tag color will give you a black bear green butt, black bear orange butt etc

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

Magalloway

Magalloway

Hook - Mustad 3399 or equivalent

Thread - Black

Tag - Flat gold tinsel

Tail -  Yellow hackle fibers

Butt - Back chenille 

 Body - Light brown wool

Throat - Brown hackle fiber

Wing - Peacock sword fibers

 Trout - Ray Bergman

McGinty (Wet)

McGinty

Winged Wet Fly

Don Martinez

Hook - Wet/nymph style

Thread - Black

Tail - Red hackle fibers and mallard flank

Body - Yellow and black chenille

Throat - Brown hackle fibers

Wing - Gray squirrel tail

Reference

Bird's Caddis

Bird's Caddis

Hook - Nymph/wet style

Thread - Black

Tag - Flat silver tinsel

Body - Floss, uni-stretch etc in your choice of colors

Thorax - Peacock herl

Bird's Nest Muddler

Bird's Nest Muddler - Dark

Hook - Mustad 9671 or equivalent

Thread - Tan

Tail - Mottled turkey flat dyed brown

Body - Flat gold tinsel

Throat and Wing - Mottled turkey flat dyed brown

Thorax - Gray dubbing

Bird's Nest Muddler - Light

Hook - Mustad 9671 or equivalent

Thread - Cream

Tail - Mottled turkey flat dyed woodduck

Body - Flat gold tinsel

Throat and Wing - Mottled turkey flat dyed woodduck

Thorax - Cream dubbing

13th Lake Bucktail

13th Lake Bucktail

Mustad 3665 #10

Black thread

Golden pheasant crest tips tail

Orange floss body

Gold tinsel rib

Orange bucktail under wing

2 Strands of root beer crystal flash

Black bucktail upper wing

Maple Syrup

Maple Syrup 

Hook: TMC 300 #10 6XL

Thread: Black

Tail: Yellow calf tail, sparse

Body: Beige chenille wrapped in 2 layers; front to back then back to front

Big Trout Only

Hook: TMC 300 #6 6XL

Thread: Black

Body: Peacock colored chenille wrapped in 2 layers; front to back then back to front

Variations

ORIGINAL MAPLE SYRUP
BEAD HEAD MAPLE SYRUP....gold bead head

BEST MAPLE SYRUP (golden tippet tail)
BLACK BEAD HEAD MAPLE SYRUP Black bead head
RED BEAD HEAD MAPLE SYRUP (red tail)
RED TAILED MAPLE SYRUP
TROLLING MAPLE SYRUP

NEW SYRUP SERIES: All red tail

BLACK SYRUP  shortest of the syrups, imitating caddis larvae (weighted)
COPPER SYRUP maple syrup with copper flash mixed in
GOLD SYRUP maple syrup with gold flash mixed
PEARL SYRUP maple syrup with pearl flash mixed in (weighted)

RED SYRUP maple syrup with red flash mixed in (weighted)
SILVER SYRUP maple syrup with silver flash mixed in (weighted)
NESOWADNEHUNK SPECIAL is an orange body with a white wing
NESOWADNEHUNK TROUT DEVIL is a red body with a white wing
OLIVE CHENILLE NYMPH (our next best colored chenille nymph for trout ) 

Tying Notes

Tying these flies is simple, but there are some rules. First, you can change the suggested sizes and colors if you want, but the recipes above seem to be the best producers. Second, you may be tempted to use only one wrap of chenille. Resist that temptation – both flies call for two wraps of chenille. Tie in at the eye, wind back and then wind forward over your first wrap. That’s two layers and anything less just doesn’t work as well. Third, the tail on the Maple Syrup should be sparse. Using too much material is the most common mistake fly tiers make. And lastly, the chenille on the Big Trout Only is wrapped back into the bend of the hook and then wrapped forward to the eye. If you only wrap it back to the point of the hook shank where the bend starts, some trout will spit it out. If you wrap the body a bit down into the bend of the hook, you’ll get better hookups.

For imitating dragon fly, stone fly, hellgrammite, hexagenia, and worm. 

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.

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

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

Crackleback

Crackleback

Hook - Mustad 94840 or equivalent

Thread - Black

Hackle - Grizzly

Shellback - Peacock herl

Body - Yarn, dubbing, z-lon, uni stretch etc.

Tie this in your favorite color body and hackle

 Developed by Ed Story in the mid 1950's.

Rogan's Gadget

Rogans Gadget

Hook - Mustad 9671, 9672 or equivalent

Thread - Black at head; red at tail

Rib - Silver oval tinsel

Body - Flat silver tinsel

Tail & Shellback - Slips of bronze mallard shoulder tied in at the bend of the hook with point extending beyond bend and tied over top of the body

Head - Peacock herl 

Tying Note - Substitute silver wire for the oval tinsel and overwrap the shell back for additional durability.