Teal & Blue
Hook - Standard wet fly, sizes 10-16
Thread - Black
Ribbing - Fine silver wire
Body - Blue floss
Hackle - Black tied on as a collar and tied back and down
Wing - Barred teal barbs tied over the body
Teal & Red
Hook - Standard wet fly, sizes 10-16
Thread - Black
Tail - Golden pheasant tippet barbs
Ribbing - Fine gold wire
Body - Red floss
Hackle - Olive tied on as a collar and tied back and down
Wing - Barred teal barbs tied over the body
Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art - Terry Hellekson
Muskrat Spider
Soft Hackle
Philip Armstrong of Dalton, Pennsylvania, popularized these flies in the mid-1920s.
Hook - Standard wet fly
Thread: - Black
Body - Dubbed muskrat fur
Hackle - Mottled gray Hungarian partridge tied as a collar.
Other variations include a bleach cream, dyed olive, and dyed-black muskrat fur bodies. Still another has a dyed-brown muskrat fur body with a mottled brown Hungarian partridge hackle.
Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art - Terry Hellekson
Stevenson Special
Hook - Single Salmon
Thread - Black
Tail - Speckled guinea fowl barbs
Ribbing - Oval gold tinsel over floss portion of body only
Body - Rear two-thirds, yellow floss; the front third, black ostrich herl
Hackle - Grizzly tied on as a collar and tied back and down; then one full turn of speckled guinea fowl
Wing - Fox squirrel tail tied over the body
Author's Note
C. N. Stevenson originated this pattern in the early 1940s.
The original wing consisted of mottled brown turkey quill sections.
Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art - Terry Hellekson
Lackey's Grant Lake
Winged Wet Fly
Hook - Standard wet fly
Thread - Black
Tip - Gold tinsel
Tail - Light brown hackle
Body - Olive floss
Hackle - Light brown
Wing - Light brown turkey
Trout - Ray Bergman
Tailor Nymph
Skarphéðinn Bjarnason.
Hook - Standard nymph
Thread - Black or brown
Ribbing - Gold or copper wire
Body - Brown yarn
Thorax - Same as body.
Back - Light brown yarn
Winged Wet Fly
Hook - Standard wet fly
Thread - Black
Tail - Light brown
Ribbing - Gold Tinsel
Body - Light green
Hackle - Light brown
Wing - Pale brown mottled
Trout - Ray Bergman
Shammy Bee
Hook - Single Salmon
Thread - Red
Tip - Flat silver tinsel
Tail - Narrow strip of natural chamois skin
Body - Yellow and red alternating bands of chenille
Hackle - Scarlet red and yellow tied on as a collar, mixed, and tied back
Wing - White bucktail tied over the body
Shammy Royal
Hook - Single Salmon
Thread - Black
Tip: Flat silver tinsel
Tail - Narrow strip of natural chamois skin
Body - Black chenille with a wide band of flat silver tinsel
Hackle - Furnace tied on as a collar and tied back
Wing - White bucktail tied long over the body
Author's Note
I discovered the two preceding patterns in Washington State where they were being used as bass flies. It was some years later before I learned they were originally intended for steelhead.
Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art - Terry Hellekson
Sawtooth
Hook - Single Salmon
Thread - Black
Tail - Speckled guinea fowl barbs
Ribbing - Flat gold tinsel
Body - Orange chenille
Hackle - Guinea fowl tied on as a collar and tied back and down
Wing - Fox squirrel tail tied over the body
Cheeks - Jungle cock eyes or substitute
Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art - Terry Hellekson
Old Master
Soft Hackle
Hook 1 (= size 14)
Wings - Hackled with a feather from the inside of a Woodcock’s wing
Body - Ash-colored silk, wrapped over with Heron’s herl
* Certain species of Heron is an illegal tying material in the USA. A substitute is gray goose.
Federal Register :: General Provisions; Revised List of Migratory Birds
I'm not into tying with silk threads or tying for museums. I use thread I have on hand.
Rippa's Revenge
Hook - Single Salmon
Thread - Red
Tail - Scarlet red hackle barbs
Ribbing - Flat silver tinsel
Body - Rear third, dubbed with fluorescent hot pink lamb's wool; the front two-thirds, dubbed with black lamb's wool
Hackle - Black tied on as a collar and tied back and down
Wing - White calf tail tied over the body
Author's Note
Stew Wallace of Portland, Oregon, originated this pattern in 1979 and named it in honor of Bob Rippa.
Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art - Terry Hellekson
Silver Orange
Hook - Single Salmon
Thread - Orange
Body - Embossed silver tinsel
Hackle - Orange hen hackle tied on as a collar and tied back
Wing - Yellow calf tail tied over the body
Author's Note
Fred A Reed of Nevada City, California, originated this pattern
Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art - Terry Hellekson
Dingbat
Steelhead
Hook - Single Salmon
Thread: Black
Tip - Oval silver tinsel
Tail 0 Golden pheasant tippet barbs
Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel
Body - Fluorescent orange chenille
Hackle - Furnace tied on as a collar and tied back
Wing - Fox squirrel tail tied over the body
Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art - Terry Hellekson
Drain's 20
Steelhead
Wes Drain of Seattle, Washington, originated this pattern. He named the fly after taking a fish over twenty pounds on the Skagit River, setting a Washington state record at that time.
Hook - Alec Jackson
Spey (Daiichi 2051), Size5
Thread - Black
Tip/Tag - Silver tinsel and
Tail - Golden pheasant tippets under yellow hackle
fibers
Body - Chinese Red Uni Wool (or Fl Red Floss)
Collar - Purple hen hackle
Underwing - Red-dyed Golden Pheasant Breast Feather*
Wing - Natural Grey Squirrel accented with sparse
Holographic Silver Lite-Brite**
Cheeks(optional) - Jungle Cock
*I used red schlappen hackle fibers
**I omitted the lite brite, none on hand
https://www.angelfire.com/wa/salmonid/howell72.html
There are other recipes for this fly. This is the one I chose.
Chief
Hook - Single salmon
Thread - Black
Tail - Scarlet red hackle barbs
Ribbing - Oval gold tinsel
Body - Dubbed with brown-gray raccoon fur
Wing - Dyed black squirrel tail tied over the body and extending to the end of tail
Hackle - Natural black hen hackle tied on as a collar and tied back
Author's Note
Originator unknown, but the fly popped up in northern California around 1950 and was popular for three or four seasons.
Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art - Terry Hellekson
Tailor Nymph
Skarphéðinn Bjarnason
Hook - Mustad 3399 or equivalent, size 10
Thread - Black or brown
Ribbing - Gold or copper wire
Body - Brown uni yarn
Thorax - Same as body
Theo's Bomber
Hook – Mustad 3906B or equivalent, size 8-12
Head - Gold bead
Thread - Black
Tail - Golden pheasant tippets and red wool
Body - Peacock herl
Hackle - Black
