They came in the mail

last night. This beautiful box of flies and some snowshoe for tying from @Zak.

Well I had to wait until after swim lessons which was really hard but I was out soon enough on the river with this box and small box of my anchor flies.
Started out with this setup.

Quick enough I had a double on the peacock rock worm thing and I can't remember what the dry is called.

This dry was just a fantastic fly, until I was fighting a fish on the rockworm, the dry just hanging above the surface, and an aggressive fish smash and grabbed it

After that I tried one of the Adirondack Snowshoe Muddlers I think it is.

Nice barbless ties came right out, even from my shirt.

Thanks Zak, beautiful flies for a beautiful place. I even fished upstream for a change.

 

[troutstalker]

Those flies look great! Thank you Tom and Zak for being such awesome members of this site!

 

[Zak]

That makes me so happy, @Tom Butler ! The dry fly with a gold ribbed green body is Steve Culton's "Hopper Hammerdown." I think he let lets it sink and tumble in the current like a drowned grasshopper, but I grease the deer hair and fish it dry, with the green abdomen in the film.

Steve Culton's blog currentseams is a good one, with quite a few of his original patterns.

A good drowned hopper: The Hopper Hammerdown wet fly

Sometimes grasshoppers forget that they can’t swim. These would-be Weissmullers end up in rivers — and trout readily eat them. While I love fishing high floating foam-bodied hoppers or …

currentseams.com

The "peacock rock worm thing" is a pattern called the "Insult."