Copper Killer

Copper Killer

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Red

Tag - Copper oval tinsel

Tip - Yellow floss/uni-stretch

Tail - Red squirrel tail

Butt - Fluorescent red floss/uni-stretch

Ribbing - Copper oval tinsel

Body: Copper flat tinsel

Throat - Orange hackle fibers

Wing - Red squirrel tail

Fly Patterns of Canada - Paul C Marriner

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

Brown's Crayfish

Brown's Crayfish

Hook: Mustad 9671 or 9672, # 4 to 8

Weighting (optional): Lead Wire

Thread: Black

Claws: a V-shaped bunch of Squirrel tail

Body: Dubbing or wool (brown, orange, olive or black)

Hackle: Rooster saddle, palmered

Shell: Turkey tail or wing, epoxied

Brown Stonefly Creeper

Brown Stonefly Creeper

Hook - Mustad 9671, 9672 or equivalent

Thread - Brown

Weight - Lead free wire, thorax area

Tail & back shell - Pheasant tail fibers

Ribbing - Thread or gold wire

Body - Stripped hackle quill/stem, brown

Thorax - Brownish dubbing

Split Tails

There are probably as many ways to split tails as there are tyers (thread ball, dubbing ball, thread tag, hockley method etc) but here is a simple method using UV resin to split tails and keep them split. After splitting the tail fibers, apply a tiny drop of uv resin and cure using your uv light to set the postition of the tails. Continue tying the rest of the fly.