Dambuster

Dambuster

Hook - Nymph style

Thread - Black

Tail - Fluorescent wool, z-lon, antron yarn etc

Body - Peacock herl.

Hackle - Brown cock.

Thorax - Peacock herl.

Shoulder Hackle - Brown cock.

Improved Chaos Hopper

Improved Chaos Hopper

Hook - TFS 2302 or equivalent, size 10-14

Thread - Brown or wood duck

Foam - 2mm cocoa/tan foam

Wing - Tan Crinkled Z-Lon/antron yarn etc.

Legs - Rubber legs in tan, yellow or green, knotted

Post - 2mm Yellow foam or white foam cylinder

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

Matt's Midge

Matt's Midge

Hook - Dry fly style

Thread - Black

Body - Black thread

Wing - White z-lon

Hackle - Grizzly

Tie this pattern in different colors

Matt’s Midge is named for its originator, Matt Miles of Colorado.

ABU Optic Streamers

Pin-Up 

(Red)

Hook - Mustad 9672 or equivalent

Thread - Black

Tail - Golden pheasant tippet

Ribbing - Gold wire or oval gold tinsel

Body - Red floss

Throat - Brown hackle fibers

Wing - Gray squirrel tail

Topping - Peacock herl

Eyes - Small silver bead chain

Pin-Up 

(Silver)

Hook - Mustad 9672 or equivalent

Thread - Black

Tail - Red hackle fibers

Ribbing - Silver wire or oval silver tinsel

Body - Flat silver tinsel

Throat - Blue hackle fibers

Wing - Gray squirrel tail

Topping - Peacock herl

Eyes - Small silver bead chain

Pin-Up 

(Black)

Hook - Mustad 9672 or equivalent

Thread - Black

Tail - Yellow hackle fibers

Ribbing - Silver wire or oval silver tinsel

Body - Black floss

Throat - Natural guinea fowl feather fibers

Wing - Gray squirrel tail

Topping - Peacock herl

Eyes - Small silver bead chain

Playboy 

(Red)

Hook - Mustad 9672 or equivalent

Thread - Black

Tail - Yellow hackle fibers or golden pheasant crest

Ribbing - Silver wire or oval silver tinsel

Body - Red floss

Throat - Dyed blue guinea hen hackle fibers

Wing - Black squirrel tail

Topping - Peacock herl

Eyes - Small silver bead chain

Playboy 

(Silver)

Hook - Mustad 9672 or equivalent

Thread - Black

Tail - Red hackle fibers

Ribbing - Gold wire or oval gold tinsel

Body - Rear; orange floss, front; black floss or wool

Throat - Black hackle fibers

Wing - Black squirrel tail

Topping - Peacock herl

Eyes - Small silver bead chain

Playboy 

(Black)

Hook - Mustad 9672 or equivalent

Thread - Black

Tail - Red hackle fibers

Ribbing - Gold wire or oval gold tinsel

Body - Rear; orange floss, front; black floss or wool

Throat - Black hackle fibers

Wing - Black squirrel tail

Topping - Peacock herl

Eyes - Small silver bead chain

Streamtease 

(Red)

Hook - Mustad 9672 or equivalent

Thread - Black

Tail - Yellow hackle fibers or golden pheasant crest

Ribbing - Gold wire or oval gold tinsel

Body - Red floss

Throat - Brown hackle fibers

Wing - Fox squirrel tail

Topping - Peacock herl

Eyes - Small silver bead chain

Streamtease 

(Silver)

Hook - Mustad 9672 or equivalent

Thread - Black

Tail - Golden pheasant tippet

Ribbing - Silver wire or oval silver tinsel

Body - Flat silver tinsel

Throat - Brown hackle fibers

Wing - Fox squirrel tail

Topping - Peacock herl

Eyes - Small silver bead chain

Streamtease 

(Black)

Hook - Mustad 9672 or equivalent

Thread - Black

Tail - Yellow hackle fibers or golden pheasant crest

Ribbing - Silver wire or oval silver tinsel

Body - Black floss

Throat - Dyed blue guinea hen hackle fibers

Wing - Fox squirrel tail

Topping - Peacock herl

Eyes - Small silver bead chain

Callgirl 

(Red)

Hook - Mustad 9672 or equivalent

Thread - Black

Tail - Yellow hackle fibers or golden pheasant crest

Ribbing - Silver wire or oval silver tinsel

Body - Red floss

Throat - Dyed blue guinea fowl feather fibers

Wing - Dyed red gray squirrel tail

Topping - Peacock herl

Eyes - Small silver bead chain

Callgirl 

(Silver)

Hook - Mustad 9672 or equivalent

Thread - Black

Tail - Mixed red & yellow hackle fibers or golden pheasant tippet

Ribbing - Silver wire or oval silver tinsel

Body - Flat silver tinsel

Throat - Dyed blue guinea hen hackle fibers

Wing - Fox squirrel tail

Topping - Peacock herl

Eyes - Small silver bead chain

Callgirl 

(Black)

Hook - Mustad 9672 or equivalent

Thread - Black

Tail - Yellow hackle fibers or golden pheasant crest

Ribbing - Gold wire or oval gold tinsel

Body - Black floss

Throat - Dyed blue guinea hen hackle fibers

Wing - Dyed red gray squirrel tail

Topping - Peacock herl

Eyes - Small silver bead chain

Reference

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

George Nymph (Cottontop)

George Nymph (Cottontop)

Hook - Mustad 9671, 9672 or equivalent, size 12-16

Thread - Dark brown or black

Tail - Brown hackle fibers

Shellback - Section of turkey tail feather

Abdomen - 3-5 strands of peacock herl

Wing case - White polypro yarn

Thorax – Peacock herl

Legs - Brown hackle fibers

Created by Eddie George in the 1930's for fishing the Little River in Tennessee.

Red Tag & Family

Red Tag & Family

Hook - Mustad 3399, 3906 or equivalent

Tail - Floss, antron yarn, wool yarn etc in your choice of colors

Body - Peacock herl (try different colors)

Hackle - Brown hen or your choice of colors

Sunken Stone

Sunken Stone

Hook - Nymph/streamer style

Thread - Hot orange

Tail - Black poly yarn

Body -  rusty orange/brown dubbing

Wings - Deer hair high-tie style

Early Emerger Nymph

Early Emerger Nymph

Hook - Dry fly

Thread - Tan

Tail - Pheasant tail fibers

Abdomen - Pheasant tail fibers

Ribbing - Tan thread

Posts - White poly yarn

Thorax - Dark hares ear

Reference - Fly Fishing & Fly Tying Magazine (UK)

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

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

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

Black Midge Pupa

Black Midge Pupa

Hook - Dry/wet style hook

Thread - Black 

Butt - Black peacock herl or ostrich herl

Body -Tying thread, floss, antron yarn, z-lon, uni-stretch etc

Feelers - Black hackle fiber

Black Maria Variant

Black Maria Variant

Hook: Nymph style

Thread: black

Ribbing: Black thread or wire

Back strap: Flat pearl tinsel

Abdomen: Black floss

Collar: Black hackle

Thorax: Black floss

Professor

Professor

Hook: Streamer

Thread: Black
Tag - Flat gold tinsel

Tail: Red duck/goose quill fibers or red hackle fibers (depicted)

Ribbing: Flat gold tinsel

Body: Yellow floss or uni stretch (depicted)

Throat: Brown hackle fibers

Wing: Gray squirrel tail

Willy's Pip

Willy's Pip

Hook - Mustad C068, C49S or equivalent 

Thread - Black or your choice of color

Tail - Furled black, white, grey, tan, red or green floss, antron yarn, z-lon etc

Collar - Peacock herl.

 Try different tail and peacock herl colors. Add different color beads in glass, brass or tungsten.

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

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.

Treacle Parkin

Treacle Parkin

Hook - Wet/nymph style

Thread - Black

Tag/tail - Yellow yarn

Body - Peacock herl

Hackle - Ginger hen