What Are You Tying Today? 2025

[nfrechet]

Silver Vulture

Tip - Gold wire
Body - Flat silver tinsel
Wing - Gray squirrel tail with an overwing of brown mink tail*
Cheeks - Jungle fowl
Hackle - Medium blue
Head - Black with a red center band

*I dont own mink tails so I used brown bucktail

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

 

[nfrechet]

Alaska Mary Ann

Variation

Tail - Crimson red hackle barbs
Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel
Body - White chenille
Wing - White bucktail
Cheeks - Jungle fowl

Author's Note

Frank Dufresne originated this pattern. For lack of anything else to work with, Frank made the first fly with a red tail, cream wool body with a silver wire ribbing, and a polar bear wing.

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

 

[nfrechet]

American River Special

Tail - Brown
Ribbing - Narrow strip of dyed dark brown raffia or a double strand of brown unistretch
Body - Green chenille
Hackle - Furnace
Head - Black chenille

Author's Note

This is one of the several patterns developed for California's American River and christened with the same name.

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

 

[dc410]

Size 10 Letort Hopper

 

[nfrechet]

Black Gordon

Tip - Oval gold tinsel, two full turns
Ribbing - Oval gold tinsel
Body - Rear third, dubbed with red lamb's wool; the front two-thirds, dubbed with black lamb's wool
Hackle - Black tied on as a collar and tied back
Wing - Dyed black squirrel tail tied over the body

Author's Note

Clarence Gordon originated this pattern while he was working as a guide at North Umpqua's Steamboat Lodge. This fly has since been used successfully from Alaska to California.

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

 

[nfrechet]

Park

Tip - Oval silver tinsel
Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel
Body - Black ostrich herl
Hackle - Yellow
Wing - Black bear hair
Cheeks - Jungle fowl

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

 

[flyguy638]

Three from today
Cohen’s Hopper: TP610 #1, Diver: B10S #1; Poppers: B10S. 1/0

 

[Arfly]

View attachment 1641245436Three from today
Cohen’s Hopper: TP610 #1, Diver: B10S #1; Poppers: B10S. 1/0

Those are cool! Those will make for some fun times on the ponds.

 

[nfrechet]

Freight Train

Tail - Purple hackle fibers
Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel
Body - Fluorescent fire orange fuzzy wool, fluorescent red fuzzy wool, and black chenille
Hackle - Purple
Wing - White calf and pearl krystal flash

Author's Note

Randall Kaufmann

Fly Patterns of Umpqua Feather Merchants - Randall Kaufmann

 

[SmittyTheSquatch]

Extendo Body Green Drake

First attempt. Need to work on the dubbing and finding some better hackle.

Any thoughts or ideas for improvement?

 

[nfrechet]

Coal Car

Tail - Black hackle
Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel
Body - Fluorescent fire orange fuzzy wool, fluorescent red fuzzy wool, and black chenille
Hackle - Black
Wing - Black calf tail with black krystal flash over top

Author's Note

Randall Kaufmann

Fly Patterns of Umpqua Feather Merchants - Randall Kaufmann​

 

[flyguy638]

Extendo Body Green Drake

First attempt. Need to work on the dubbing and finding some better hackle.

Any thoughts or ideas for improvement?

Nice job, there’s a lot of good going on here. Hackle, yes, and picture is grainy so it’s a bit difficult to view

 

[nfrechet]

Hooker

Hook - Single salmon
Thread - Red or black
Ribbing - Black wool
Body - Yellow wool
Hackle - Brown
Wing - Black calf tail

Steelhead Fly tying Manual - Light & Humphrey

 

[Shawn_H]

Couple more for the smallies as the season winds down here - Jake Villwock’s crawl daddy. Great fly - somewhat complicated but fun:

 

[dc410]

A pile of Breadcrust flies, tied on size 14 Mustad 3906B hooks.

 

[JimNovo]

Tying a starter box for my NC Brother in Law to chase bass and sunnies. I figure if I can get him started on this...then chasing trout is next. I'm sounding like a drug dealer..

Some stimulators to get things rolling.

 

[nfrechet]

Dolly Varden

Hook - Single salmon
Thread - Black or White
Tail - Brown hackle
Ribbing - Brown floss
Budy - White wool
Hackle - Brown
Wing - Gray squirrel tail

Steelhead Fly Tying Manual - Light & Humphrey

 

[flyguy638]

2/0 PR320 Diver with some color fade

 

[nfrechet]

Stanley Streamer

Hook - Single salmon
Thread - Black or orange
Tail - Orange hackle fibers
Ribbing - Oval gold tinsel over rear half of body only
Body - Rear half'- black wool, Front half - Olive chennile
Hackle - Orange
Wing - White bucktail or calf tail
Cheeks - Jungle fowl (optional)

Steelhead Fly Tying Manual - Light & Humphrey

 

[nfrechet]

Bob Wilson Streamer

Hook - Single Salmon
Thread - Yellow
Tail - Golden pheasant crest
Body - Copper tinsel or copper wire
Hackle - Black tied on as a beard
Wings - 2 matching sections of barred woodduck

*May also be tied on 3X, 4X long streamer hooks

Steelhead Fly Tying Manual - Light & Humphrey