Saturday, May 31, 2025

Olive Dun

Olive Dun 

Tail - Olive hackle barbs

Body - Dubbed with olive rabbit fur

Hackle - Olive tied on as a collar and tied back and down

Wings -Natural gray duck quill sections tied on edge over the body

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

Speckled Spider

Speckled Spider

Body - Well-marked grizzly hackle stem wrapped over a tapered gray floss underbody. Reverse wrapped with fine silver wire

Hackle - Mottled gray Hungarian partridge tied on as a collar and tied back

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

Friday, May 30, 2025

Pale Evening Dun


Pale Evening Dun

Tip - Gold tinsel

Tail - Gray mallard

Ribbing - Gold tinsel

Body - Pale yellow

Hackle - Blue-gray

Wing - Light slate duck or goose quill segments

Trout - Ray Bergman

Thursday, May 29, 2025

Dark Alder

Dark Alder

Tip - Gold tinsel

Body - Peacock herl

Hackle - Black

Wing - Slate duck or goose quill segments

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth

Soft Hackle Caddis


Soft Hackle Caddis

Ribbing - Gold wire or tinsel

Body - Caddis green dubbing or your favorite caddis color

Thorax - Peacock herl

Hackle - Partridge or substutute

From an Internet Photo

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Joe's Hopper


Joe's Hopper

Tail - Red hackle fibers

Body - Yellow yarn of your choice

Ribbing - Brown hackle, trimmed

Wing - 2 matched turkey quill sections

Hackle - Brown and grizzly

Monday, May 26, 2025

Purple Hackle Peacock


Purple Hackle Peacock

Tip - Gold or silver tinsel

Tail - Purple  hackle fibers

Body - Peacock herl

Hackle - Purple

Sunday, May 25, 2025

Lil' Dorothy


Lil' Dorothy

Mark Libertone Originator

Body - Cotton embroidery floss in a pale orange color, #722, one strand from a three strand twist or substitute pale orange floss

Thorax - Light Cahill Hareline dubbing, tied fuzzy

Hackle - Pale Ginger Hen

Mark Libertone Note

This is another of my own patterns and is tied in a style that combines the traditional soft-hackle with flymph attributes. I tied it to represent Ephemerella dorothea that hatches on my home river at the end of May and has a distinctive orange cast to the cream colored body. Again, the combination of the cream thorax and pale orange abdomen work to create the correct appearance. I know it works when the dorotheas are hatching., and I've fished it at other times in other places, and this fly has taken trout. I also know it works well for Sulphurs that have a distinct orange cast, too.

Grim Reaper

Grim Reaper

Mark DeFrank Originator

Ribbing - Red wire

Body - Gold holographic tinsel

Thorax - Dark squirrel or hare's ear dubbing

Hackle - Brown speckled hen

Dark Greenwell

Dark Greenwell

Ribbing - Gold wire

Body - Dark green wool yarn

Hackle - Greenwell colored hen (brown center ginger tips)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX4UaAlEBqY


Greenwell Colored Hackle

Saturday, May 24, 2025

Gray Drake



Gray Drake

Tail - Gray mallard

Ribbing - Black floss

Body - White floss

Hackle - Gray

Wing - Gray mallard

Trout - Ray Bergman

Friday, May 23, 2025

Olive EeeZee Caddis Emerger


Olive EeeZee Caddis Emerger

Larry O Jurgens

An adaptation of Tim Fox’s Poopah

Abdomen - Dark Olive Micro Ultra Chenille

Wing - Natural Gray/Brown CDC Fibers

Thorax - Peacock Herl

https://lojsflytyingbugstuff.blogspot.com/2009/04/mothers-day-hatch-is-fast-approaching_04.html

Syko Baetis Emerger


Syko Baetis Emerger

Larry O Jergens

Head - Black glass bead

Abdomen - Black pearl flashabou or holographic tinsel

Emergent wing bud - Black antron yarn

Thorax - Peacock herl

https://lojsflytyingbugstuff.blogspot.com/2013/03/syko-baetis-emerger.html

BR (Black Rainbow) Baetis Emerger

BR (Black Rainbow) Baetis Emerger

Tail/Shuck - Gray antron yarn fibers

Ribbing - Blue wire

Abdomen - Black rainbow embroidery thread or equivalent

Wing - Gray or white antron yarn fibers

Thorax - Mahogany brown superfine dubbing

https://lojsflytyingbugstuff.blogspot.com/




Wasp


Wasp

Ribbing - Gold tinsel

Body - Yellow chenille

Hackle - Brown

Wing - Dark slate or black duck or goode quill segments

Authors Note

Also made yellow floss body with black floss joint in center.

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Wasp


Wasp

Plate 9

Tip - Orange floss

Body - Alternate black and brown ostrich herl

Hackle - browm

Wing - Tan-black-tan duck or goose quill segmants

Trout - Ray Bergman

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

St Lawrence


St Lawrence

Plate 8

Tip - Gold tinsel 
(not written in the original recipe but depicted in sample drawing)

Tail - Scarlet

Butt - Scarlet chenille

Ribbing - Gold tinsel

Body - Yellow floss

Hackle - Scarlet

Wing - Light gray turkey over brown turkey

Trout - Ray Bergman

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Grasshopper

Grasshopper

Plate 10

Tail - Scarlet hackle wisps

Ribbing - Brown hackle palmered

Body - Yellow wool

Wing - Light brown turkey

Trout - Ray Bergman

Monday, May 19, 2025

Pale Watery Quill


Pale Watery Quill

Plate 6 

Tail - Greenish Yellow (Pale)

Body - Peacock Quill

Hackle - Greenish Yellow (Pale)

Wing - Light slate duck or goose quill segments

Trout - Ray Bergman

Sunday, May 18, 2025

Forsyth


Forsyth

Tip - Light blue floss

Hackle - Yellow tied palmer

Body - Yellow wool

Wing -Yellow with brown stripe, married

Trout - Ray Bergman