What Are You Tying Today?

Hatchmatcher - I think I’ll put a little bend in the hook next time but for now, it’s time to pick up leaves.

Hook - Orvis 1P13 wide gap 14 hook
Thread - Veevus 12/0 white
Tail - Mallard flank
Wing - Mallard flank
Body - Mallard flank fibers
Legs - White CDC
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Scoodic Sunrise


Variation

Mike Best

Hook - Single salmon
Thread - Black
Tag - Oval silver tinsel and Fluorescent orange floss
Tail - Golden pheasant crest
Butt - Black ostrich herl
Ribbing - Oval gold tinsel
Body - Rear, Pearl tinsel; Front, Peacock herl
Hackle - Blue hen tied in before the wing
Wing - Gray fox* and orange krystal flash
Collar - Orange hen

*I used gray squirrel

 
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Greyhound

Carrie G Stevens

Hook - Mustad R79 - 94720
Thread -Red
Tag - Silver tinsel
Tail - Red hen or schlappen
Body - Red floss
Rib - Silver tinsel
Underbelly - White bucktail & strands of peacock herl
Throat - Red hen or schlappen
Wing - Four grey hackles
Shoulder - Jungle **** body feather
Cheek - Jungle ****
Head - Red with a black band

Carrie G Stevens - Maker of Rangely Favorite Trout & Salmon Flies - G R Hilyard & L K Hilyard
 
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Saugatuck King

Hook - L87AP Streamer
Thread - Black
Body - Gold tinsel
Wing - White bucktail Tipped with golden badger hackles
Eyes (Optional) - Painted black over white

Standard Dictionary of Fishing Flies - Keith Perrault
 
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Gray Ghost

Carrie G Stevens

Hook - Partridge CS15, #4
Thread - White and black
Tag - Flat silver tinsel
Ribbing - Flat silver tinsel
Body - Orange floss
Under belly - 4-6 strands of peacock herl, then white bucktail
Throat - Golden pheasant crest
Wing - Golden pheasant crest, then 4 gray hackles. Crest and hackles are of equal length
Shoulders - Silver pheasant body feather
Cheeks - Jungle ****
Head - Black with an orange band

Carrie G Stevens - Maker of Rangely Favorite Trout & Salmon Flies - G R Hilyard & L K Hilyard
 
I just came off a tying marathon.

This is my favorite LMB and Bluegill fly:
Black Cricket
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I was ask for some elk hair caddis.
I used some elk hair as a tail. Is that ok?
Red thread mainly for visibility (hopefully).
Roaster neck feather for hackle.
Then finish of with another stack of elk hair.
I think it is calf hair.
 

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original elk hair caddis pattern did not have a tail but its okay if you want it

almost a stimulator
 
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Stewart's Hawk

Originated by Austin Hogan

Hook - Streamer 4xl
Thread - Black
Tail - White bucktail
Body - Silver embossed tinsel
Wing - Small bunch of blue bucktail, reaching to the end of the tail. Over this, rather wide slips of any soft, streaked/mottle feather to imitate hawk (used on original)
Cheeks - Jungle ****

Stuart's Hawk is an Austin Hogan pattern. He created it for his friend and fellow angler Clarance "Cak" Stewart. It is responsible for taking a number of small mouth bass in the Northeastern United States and no doubt many trout have been fooled into grabbing hold. The wing was selected for its softness and for the motion imparted as it is stripped through the water, pulsing with a strip and pause. The original pattern called for hawk, but in all cases, it is now illegal to possess raptor feathers. Turkey tail, peacock wing or any mottled feather would work in place of the hawk.

Streamers 365 Vol 1 #1-122 - Darren MacEachern
 
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