Brown Hackle Soft Hackles

Brown Hackle Black, Brown Hackle Orange, Brown Hackle Red

Brown Hackle Black
Hook - Wet fly style
Thread - Black
Ribbing - Flat gold tinsel
Body - Black floss or uni-stretch
Hackle - Brown hen

Brown Hackle Orange
Hook - Wet fly style
Thread - Black
Ribbing - Flat gold tinsel
Body - Orange floss or uni-stretch
Hackle - Brown hen

Brown Hackle Red
Hook - Wet fly style
Thread - Black
Ribbing - Flat gold tinsel
Body - Red floss or uni-stretch
Hackle - Brown hen

Brown Hackle silver, Brown Hackle Yellow, Brown Hackle Blue

Brown Hackle Silver
Hook - Wet fly style
Thread - Black
Tail - Red hackle fibers
Body - Silver embossed tinsel
Hackle - Brown hen

Brown Hackle Yellow
Hook - Wet fly style
Thread - Black
Ribbing - Flat gold tinsel
Body - Yellow floss or uni-stretch
Hackle - Brown hen

Brown Hackle Blue
Hook - Wet fly style
Thread - Black
Ribbing - Flat gold tinsel
Body - Blue floss or uni-stretch
Hackle - Brown hen

Brown Hackle White, Brown Hackle Peacock, Brown Hackle Gray

Brown Hackle White
Hook - Wet fly style
Thread - Black
Ribbing - Flat gold tinsel
Body - White floss or uni-stretch
Hackle - Brown hen

Brown Hackle Peacock
Hook - Wet fly style
Thread - Black
Tail - Red hackle fibers
Ribbing - Flat gold tinsel
Body - Peacock herl
Hackle - Brown hen

Brown Hackle Gray
Hook - Wet fly style
Thread - Black
Ribbing - Flat gold tinsel
Body - Gray floss or uni-stretch
Hackle - Brown hen

Brown Hackle Brown, Brown Hackle, Brown Hackle Purple

Brown Hackle Brown
Hook - Wet fly style
Thread - Black
Ribbing - Flat gold tinsel
Body - Brown wool yarn
Hackle - Brown hen

Brown Hackle
Hook - Wet fly style
Thread - Black
Tail - Golden pheasant tippets
Ribbing - Flat gold tinsel
Body - Peacock herl
Hackle - Brown hen

Brown Hackle Purple
Hook - Wet fly style
Thread - Black
Ribbing - Flat gold tinsel
Body - Purple floss or uni-stretch
Hackle - Brown hen

Reference - Perrault's Standard Dictionary of Fishing Flies

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

Edson Tigers

Edson Tiger - Dark

Hook - Mustad L87-3665A

Thread - Yellow

Tag - Flat gold tinsel

Tail - Yellow Hackle Tips

Body - Yellow Chenille

Wing - Brown bucktail dyed yellow

Throat - Red hackle fibers

Cheek - Edson brass eye

Head - Painted yellow then overcoated with UV resin

Forgotten Flies - Schmookler & Sils

*Forgotten Flies lists 6 recipes for Edson Tiger - Light

Edson Tiger - Light

Hook - Mustad L87-3665A

Thread - Black

Tag - Flat gold tinsel

Tail - Mandarin (I used barred wood duck)

Body - Peacock herl

Wing - Yellow bucktail

Topping - Red hackle tips

Cheek - Edson brass eye

Forgotten Flies - Schmookler & Sils

*Forgotten Flies lists 6 recipes for Edson Tiger - Light

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.

Bivisibles

Black & White Bivisible

Hook - Mustad 94840 or equivalent

Thread - Black (or white)

Black hackle tied palmered over the body, with a few turns of white in front

Brown & White Bivisible

Hook - Mustad 94840 or equivalent

Thread - Black (or white)

Brown hackle tied palmered over the body, with a few turns of white in front

Golden Badger & White Bivisible

Hook - Mustad 94840 or equivalent

Thread - Black (or white)

Golden badger hackle tied palmered over the body, with a few turns of white in front

Grizzly & White Bivisible

Hook - Mustad 94840 or equivalent

Thread - Black (or white)

Grizzly hackle tied palmered over the body, with a few turns of white in front

Silver Badger & White Bivisible

Hook - Mustad 94840 or equivalent

Thread - Black (or white)

Silver badger hackle tied palmered over the body, with a few turns of white in front

Tying note: Tails can be added (same color as the aft hackle) and the body may be tinsel

Grizzly & White Bivisible

Hook - Mustad 94840 or equivalent

Thread - Black (or white)

Tail - Grizzly hackle fibers

Body - Flat silver tinsel

Grizzly hackle tied palmered over the body, with a few turns of white in front

Try different color rear hackle but keep the white up front.

Regarding the Bivisible: Some recipes have tails of hackle fibers (same color as the rear hackle), hackle tips (same color as the rear hackle), tinsel bodies and even dubbed bodies. Tie them how YOU see fit

"Bivisible - Fly Angler's OnLine Volumn 7 week 9

Queen of the Waters

Queen of the Waters

Hook: Streamer Style

Thread: Black & White

Tail: Golden Pheasant Tippets

Rib: Gold Tinsel

Body: Orange Floss

Wing: Gray Squirrel 

Hackle: Brown

Tying note: Use white thread under floss bodies to help prevent the floss from darkening

Reference: Forgotten Flies (Schmookler & Sils)

UV Ashers

UV Ashers

Hook - Mustad 94840 or equivalent

Thread - Your choice of color

Hackle - Grizzly or your choice of color

Body - Thread, tinsel etc.

UV Resin

Apply a coat of uv resin to the thread or tinsel body and wrap the hackle into the wet resin. 

Cure resin with your uv flashlight.

Doc Spratley

Doc Spratley

Hook - Nymph/streamer, 8-10

Tail - Guinea fowl

Body - Red, green, orange, black wool

Rib - Silver tinsel

Hackle - Guinea fowl

Wing - Pheasant tail

Head - Peacock herl

Pinedale Floater, Light & Dark

Pinedale Floater, Light

Hook - Mustad 94840 or equivalent

Thread - Tan

Tail & Body - Light tan elk hair. Body & tail are fashioned from a single bunch of hair, and body is wrapped in a crisscross from front to rear and back to the front.

Hackle - Light ginger

Pinedale Floater, Dark

Hook - Mustad 94840 or equivalent

Thread - Brown

Tail & Body - Brown elk hair. Body & tail are fashioned from a single bunch of hair, and body is wrapped in a crisscross from front to rear and back to the front.

Hackle - Dark ginger

Popular Fly Patterns by Terry Hellekson

Spruce Fly

Back in 1918 the Spruce was originally called the Godfrey Badger Hackle or Godfrey Special after a Mr. Godfrey to whom the pattern is now credited.

Variations

The most original dressing of the Spruce is tied on a regular streamer hook with red wool (1/4) and peacock (3/4) body with splayed wings (E.H. Rosborough). This, and the version illustrated are sometimes referred to as the Light Spruce. A Dark Spruce variation replaces the silver badger hackles with golden badger or furnace. The pattern can also include a silver tag and a head over wrapped with red thread.

Light Spruce - Splayed Wings

Dark Spruce - Splayed Wings

Light Spruce

Head: Black

Tail: 4-5 Peacock sword fibers, about a half an inch long when dressed on an average sized hook (regular-length hooks should be used for this fly)

Body: Rear quarter is red wool, not picked out, but built up toward the peacock. Front three quarters is wound with peacock herl, rather heavily dressed.

Throat: A silver badger hackle, wound on as a collar, fairly bushy, applied after the wing has been put on.

Wing: Two silver badger hackle tips, tied on back to back so that they splay out to form a V, extending beyond the end if the tail.

Originally, the fly was called the Godfrey Special or Godfrey Badger Hackle

Dark Spruce

Head: Black

Tail: 4-5 Peacock sword fibers, about a half an inch long when dressed on an average sized hook (regular-length hooks should be used for this fly)

Body: Rear quarter is red wool, not picked out, but built up toward the peacock. Front three quarters is wound with peacock herl, rather heavily dressed.

Throat: A furnace hackle, wound on as a collar, fairly bushy, applied after the wing has been put on.

Wing: Two furnace hackle tips, tied on back to back so that they splay out to form a V, extending beyond the end if the tail. (I substituted brown hackle)

Reference: Streamers & Bucktails The Big Fish Flies by Joseph D Bates JR

Silver Spruce - Splayed Wings

Head: Black

Tail: 4-5 Peacock sword fibers, about a half an inch long when dressed on an average sized hook (regular-length hooks should be used for this fly)

Body: Rear quarter is silver tinsel, not picked out, but built up toward the peacock. Front three quarters is wound with peacock herl, rather heavily dressed.

Throat: A silver badger hackle, wound on as a collar, fairly bushy, applied after the wing has been put on.

Wing: Two silver badger hackle tips, tied on back to back so that they splay out to form a V, extending beyond the end if the tail.

Spruce Flies as tied today (non splayed wings)

Light

Dark

Wooly Worms

Black Chenille - Grizzly Hackle

Gray Chenille - Silver Badger Hackle

Gray Chenille - Grizzly Hackle

Olive Chenille - Grizzly Hackle

Olive Chenille - Grizzly Hackle

Orange Chenille - Grizzly Hackle

Peacock Chenille - Brown Hackle

Peacock Chenille - Cree Hackle

Peacock Chenille - Grizzly Hackle

Red Chenille - Brown Hackle

Red Chenille - Grizzly Hackle

Yellow Chenille - Brown Hackle

Yellow Chenille - Golden Badger Hackle

Yellow Chenille - Grizzly Hackle

Basic Wooly Worm Recipe

Hook - 3xl, 4xl nymph/streamer style

Weight - Lead/lead free wire (add a bead if you desire)

Thread - Black or your choice of color

Tail - Red antron yarn, wool yarn, marabou

Hackle - Brown, badger, grizzly etc

Ribbing - Gold wire

Body - Chenille in your favorite color, yarn, peacock herl, dubbing

Experiments

Experiments, mistakes, ideas, one offs etc

Midges

Bubble Midge

Gunner

Krystal Flash (KF) Midge

Mercury Midge

Palomino Midge

Tan Thread Midge

Wired UFO Midge

Yong Special

Zebra Midge