What's in your vise?

[Norm Frechette]

Crosby Special

Atlantic Salmon

Mike Crosby Originator

Hook - Mustad 3906

Thread - Red

Tag - Flat silver tinsel

Tail - Golden pheasant crest

Butt - Red wool

Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel

Body - Rear 1/3 - fluorescent green floss; front 2/3 - dark green wool

Wing - Grey squirrel tail

Cheek - Jungle cock

Collar - Peachy-yellow/orange hackle

Photo in the book depicts an orange hackle. I don't have peachy-yellow hackle

The fish won't care either way

There are other recipes for this fly. A Google search will find them for you

Fly Patterns of Canada - Paul C Marriner

 

[Scottp]

Muddled Mini Hopper

hook - WFC Model 28 #10
thread - Uni 6/0 tan
body - Ice Dub Hare’s Ear
wing - 2mm foam tan
shoulder - hen grizzly
collar/head - pronghorn

Regards,
Scott

 

[Stonedfish]

Playing around with more soft hackles.
Chum fry seem to have more of a goldish brown color.
Pink fry have more of a blueish green back.
Think Doug Rose’s Keta Rose.
Added krystal flash under the grizzly hackle to try and imitate both.
Maybe with grizzly hackle to imitate chum parr marks and a blue hue, they might take it for either. We’ll see…..
We’ll start encounter some fry here in a couple weeks.
SF

 

[Grayone]

Classic Sofa Pillow- I like old school flies

Brown Owl - Interesting east coast version of a stonefly/salmonfly adult. Supposed to be fished damp or low in the film then wet, dressed sparse, can also double as a streamer. I think it looks legit. Would be interesting to try it out west durring the salmonfly hatch when everyone is throwing big foam rubberlegged things.

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The sofa pillow is an outstanding fly pattern on the Deschutes river

 

[Stonedfish]

 

[jasmillo]

A few couple more for the SRC box.





Articulated albacore fly. Rear half tied reverse spider with 4 schlappen feathers to try and drive tail movement.

 

[Scudley Do Right]

 

[Norm Frechette]

Partridge and Yellow

or

Yellow Partridge

Hook - Wet fly style

Thread - Yellow silk

Hackle - Hungarian partridge

I do not own silk threads. I just substituted yellow uni stretch.

Reference

Yorkshire Trout Flies by T. E. Pritt (1885) Note – The following book is the same text, only the title was changed.

No. 28. Yellow Partridge (Grey Gnat).
Hook1
Wings. — Hackled with a light feather from the back of a Partridge.
Body. — Yellow silk.
A good killer almost any time during April.

North Country Flies by T.E. Pritt (1886) – Note: only the title was changed from Pritt’s Yorkshire Trout Flies published the previous year.

No. 28. Yellow Partridge (Grey Gnat).
Hook1
Wings. — Hackled with a light feather from the back of a Partridge.
Body. — Yellow silk.
A good killer almost any time during April.

Brook and River Trouting by Harfield H. Edmonds and Norman N. Lee (1916)

No. 14.
Yellow Partridge.
PERLIDIAE and Diptera (Crane-fly).
Hook or 1.
Wings. — Hackled with a greyish feather barely tinged with brown, from a Partridge's back.
Body. — Yellow silk, No. 4.
Head. — Yellow silk.
May to middle of June.

 

[Norm Frechette]

L'original Des Chic-Chocs*

Streamer Fly Pattern

Hook - Mustad 3665A or equivalent
Thread - Black
Tail - Fluorescent green uni floss
Ribbing - Oval gold tinsel
Wing - Moose mane, dark and light hairs

*Google translate = The Chic-Chocs Moose

The Chic-Choc Mountains, also spelled Shick Shocks, is a mountain range in the central region of the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec, Canada. It is a part of the Notre Dame Mountains, which is a continuation of the Appalachian Mountains.

Internet Website

 

[Scottp]

Kingfisher’s Spruce Moth (variation)

Started with their version and went from there; although it’s more involved than the patterns I normally use for this emergence, I can see it making a good splat when it hits the water.

hook - WFC Model 3 #10
thread - Uni 6/0 tan
rib - xsmall wire silver
body - Ice Dub tan
body hackle - ginger
underwing - Congo Hair Shiner Tan
shoulder - sharptail grouse
wing - pronghorn
head - 1mm foam tan
indicator - 1mm foam orange

Regards,
Scott

 

[Dr. Magill]

Still messing around with body tubing heads:

I sent some out to a couple of bros for some testing so we’ll see where it goes.

 

[_WW_]

I hope that people that tie ordinary flies for everyday fishing won't be too intimidated by the Art Flies that have become so predominant on the fly tying pages. As beautiful as the flies are they don't represent what is needed for daily fishing where you might lose a dozen flies a day under normal circumstances. I for one have been intimidated by page after page of complex brilliantly colored flies that are museum quality but lack practicality. I would like to see more fishable flies that would be at home in area lakes and streams and particularly flies that those of us with modest skills can readily tie. I admire the skill it takes to tie the Art Flies but in the end get more out of watching a guy on YouTube tie a Perdigon nymph or a caddis pupa that I can use locally.

And yes-I realize that my remarks will generate some criticism......

The Pez

I started tying this fly for Pass Lake in 2006. I was looking for something that would resemble a few things in general but nothing in particular. Since then, this fly has caught tons of searuns, steelhead, bull trout, and smallmouth, along with the trout in Pass. It is my number one trout streamer and has caught more lake fish than anything else. It worked so well the first time I took it out that I daydreamed of putting it in a Pez dispenser. Hence the name.

It works well in wooded environments because it takes advantage of the 200R's tendency to ride upside down. I help it along by clipping the hackle and tying in the tail on the "wrong" side of the shank. In size 8 and #8 test line you can pull it right off the wood, straighten the hook, and get beck to fishing in seconds. My favorite color is olive brown, olive grizzly for hackle and a piece of red micro chenille. Counter rib it with something because the body is the left over marabou from the tail twisted a little and wrapped like chenille.

 

[rattlesnake]

Still messing around with body tubing heads:
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I sent some out to a couple of bros for some testing so we’ll see where it goes.

Did you make a cheat sheet on your desk for how long the BT needs to be? I did the same after trying it out 4 or 5 times just to get the proportions right. Tricky material but works well

 

[Dr. Magill]

Did you make a cheat sheet on your desk for how long the BT needs to be? I did the same after trying it out 4 or 5 times just to get the proportions right. Tricky material but works well

Yes
I want to tie up some swine types with the tubing in the fly

 

[MT_Flyfisher]

Not my flies but I had this pic in the camera roll of some flies that Chauncey Lively tied (PA spring creek fisherman… known in the same circles as marinaro, Fox, shenk etc but not quite as popular. Thought somebody may enjoy seeing these classics, could be 30 years old! I’ve had them for at least 15 or so

Thanks for posting this. It brings back memories.

Chauncey Lively was originally from Waynesburg, PA and for many years had articles on his innovative fly patterns in each issue of the PA Angler Magazine. Many of his flies are in museums and private collectors possessions. He was inducted into the PA Fly Fishing Museum Association’s Hall of Fame in 2020. His book titled “Chauncy Lively’s Flybox” can still be purchased on Amazon and EBay.

(I see in your profile that you you were from Pittsburgh, PA. Good to know there are a few of us Pennsylvanians on this forum. My wife was a 4th generation Pittsburgh native, and we have a number of items from Pittsburgh in our home, some of which date back 100 years. I have some old snelled flys and fly boxes that belonged to my wife’s grandfather; he died in 1962.)

 

[rattlesnake]

Thanks for posting this. It brings back memories.

Chauncey Lively was originally from Waynesburg, PA and for many years had articles on his innovative fly patterns in each issue of the PA Angler Magazine. Many of his flies are in museums and private collectors possessions. He was inducted into the PA Fly Fishing Museum Association’s Hall of Fame in 2020. His book titled “Chauncy Lively’s Flybox” can still be purchased on Amazon and EBay.

(I see in your profile that you you were from Pittsburgh, PA. Good to know there are a few of us Pennsylvanians on this forum. My wife was a 4th generation Pittsburgh native, and we have a number of items from Pittsburgh in our home, some of which date back 100 years. I have some old snelled flys and fly boxes that belonged to my wife’s grandfather; he died in 1962.)

That’s good stuff, appreciate the response!

I had these flies out to send the pic to a friend but what prompted it was that I found an old berkley fiberglass 806 on eBay that belonged to Chauncey and was lucky enough to snag it (cool shape to the grip too). Chauncey taught the mentor that taught me to fly fish so it’s pretty cool to have this rod. I want to catch a fish on one of his flies off this rod.

 

[Norm Frechette]

McCoul Special

Jim McCoul Originator

Atlantic Salmon

Hook - Gamakatsu T10-6H or equivalent
Thread - Black
Tail - Red hackle fibers
Body - Silver braid built up to a cigar shape
Wing - Orange calf tail over orange krystal flash
Collar - Red hen kackle

Modern Atlantic Salmon Flies - Paul C Marriner

 

[Jacob Watrous]

Tied on a whim, turns out it’s fairly productive for coho and sea run cutthroat.

 

[Norm Frechette]

Pinhey Special

Jim Pinhey Originator

Atlantic Salmon

Hook - Mustad 9671, size 6

Thread - Black

Tail - Narrow red feather segment (I used red hackle fibers)

Butt - 2-3 turns of oval gold tinsel

Ribbing - Oval gold tinsel

Body - Yellow wool

Hackle - Blue tied in as a throat

Wing - Red fox squirrel tail

Modern Atlantic Salmon Flies - Paul C Marriner

 

[Hogsnatcher]

A fishing fly, but only in places where it wont become river fodder.