Marabou History Marabou is a soft webby feather usually located on the belly of the bird. It is an important feather for fly tying but is also a desired feather for the fashion industry in creating boas, for hat plumage, and edge lining of garments. Originally collected from Marabou Storks of Africa, marabou is collected…
Read MoreGenetic Hackles History Great strides with Genetic Hackles have been made over the past 60 years with the hackles that are provided to fly tiers. It has been a process beginning with Harry Darbee in the 1940’s and continuing today with Dr. Tom Whiting of Whiting Farms and many other poultry farms. Mr. Darbee bred…
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Pheasant Bugger Jig Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Body Collar Tail with Pheasant Bugger Jig Gunnar Brammer’s Pheasant Bugger Jig is a streamer tied entirely out of pheasant. The pattern is super buggy and can be used in both stillwaters and running streams. It can be stripped, jerked, jigged, dead-drifted…
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Thin Mint Bugger, Olive/Brown/Black Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Weight 7 wraps Ribbing and Body Hackle Tail , , Tail Flash 3-4 strands on each side. Thin Mint The Thin Mint is a variation of the Wooly Bugger utilizing a trifecta of tail colors, Black/Brown/Olive, and a Peacock Herl body.…
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Jig Sculpin, Tan Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Body Fins Collar Tail and Jig Sculpin The Jig Sculpin is an extension of Euro Style nymphing being applied to streamer fishing. The jig streamer is usually applied to a typical Euro Nymphing rig as a point fly and is jigged as…
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Clouser’s Swimming Nymph Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Weight wraps Ribbing Legs Body Thorax wingcase Tail with Designed by Bob Clouser. Bob guides for smallmouth Bass in Pennsylvannia on the Susquehanna River. He has designed a number of reknown flies, perhaps best known for his Clouser Minnows. The Swimming Nymph…
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Burk’s Aggravator, Hare’s Ear Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Weight wraps Ribbing Legs Body Thorax wingcase Tail Tag Collar Andy Burk, a Central Sierran fly fishing guide, designed this fly originally for smallmouth bass. Yet, it has also been very effective for a number of other species including largemouth, steelhead,…
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Galloup’s Zoo Cougar </tr> Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head , clipped Body Underwing Overwing 2 Tail Collar Galloup’s Zoo Cougar Kelly Galloup is widely known and recognized for his creative, innovative patterns. The Galloup’s Zoo Cougar is interesting because of its dual personality. It is designed as a floating fly,…
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Black Zonker Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Underbody Body Wing Throat Zonker Dan Byford of Steamboat Springs, Colorado came up with the Zonker pattern in 1975 while he owned the Dan Byford Fly Shop. It is one of the modern American Rabbit-lure patterns taken from the original Rabbit flies introduced…
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Spruce-a-bou, Golden Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Ribbing Body Underwing Wing with Sides Hackle Spruce-a-bou Developed by fly fishing guide Tom Loe at Crowley Lake, CA. He was the founder of Sierra Drifters Guide Service and now resides in LaPine, Oregon. The Spruce-a-bou was designed to imitate baitfish that inhabit…
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