Hook - Single salmon
Thread - Black
Tag - Oval gold tinsel and red floss
Tail - Red Hackle fibers
Rib - Oval gold tinsel
Body - Black floss
Hackle - Black hen
Wing - Red squirrel tail
Leechy style deep nut job (tungsten and lead in there, less dense craft fur) and another crayfish style single. I like the orangutan rust on this one a bunch
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An olive hares ear type. I have done pretty well in lakes with this fly.
Hook:FM5080 #12
Tail and leg: partridge
Body: olive dyed hares mask
Rib: copper uni-wire
Wing case: brown holographic tinsel with UV resin
A few jerk bait flies for prespawn smallies....should be very close, if not already happening depending on your PNW water.
I always seem to do best with these simple patterns during either pre spawn or late August fished deep (don't really fish for them that time of year much any more though).
Hook - Standard wet fly
Thread - White under body, Black head
Tail - Dun hackle
Body - Yellow floss
Hackle - Dun hackle
Wing - Slate duck or goose wing quill segments
Author's Note
Also made rabbits fur body, silver tip, dun hackle, slate wing.
Also made body ribbed gold or brown, gray hackle at tail, yellow hackle at shoulder.
Also made blue floss body, yellow floss tag, yellow hackle, white wing.
My this week's "Throw Back" Thursday" fly is another hair wing variant classic, the Black Doctor salmon fly from the family of doctor flies originated in the late 1800's by Scottish fly dresser James Wright who also created the Silver Doctor and Thunder & Lightening.