Posts by Fly Fishing the Sierra

Royal Trude Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body and Tail Wing Hackle Trude The Trude is a down-wing dry pattern usually tied with a calf tail hair wing and a heavy hackle collar. Originally, the Trude was a streamer fly designed by Carter H. Harrison of Chicago, Illinois, in the summer…

Sierra Bright Dot Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Tail Hackle Sierra Bright Dot The Sierra Bright Dot is a Fore and Aft pattern. The pattern has been used primarily on the Eastside of the Southern Sierra for many years going back to the 1950’s. It has remained popular as an…

Yellow Humpy Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Shellback Tail Wing , divided Hackle , mixed Humpy Many fly historians believe the Humpy originated during the early 1940’s by California Fly Tyer, Jack Horner, in the Hat Creek area of the Northern Sierra. It was known as Horner’s Deer Hair Fly.…

Goofus Bug Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Shellback Tail Wing Hackle Goofus Bug A fly pattern named the Tom Thumb was designed in the early 1940’s in England and made its way to Western Canada. Author/Angler Art Lingren cites the naming of the Tom Thumb to late British Columbia angler…

Gray Ugly Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Ribbing Tail Butt Hackle , Fore and Aft Gray Ugly Like the Sierra Bright Dot, the Gray Ugly is a Fore and Aft pattern in which there are a Front and Rear Grizzly hackle. The body is peacock herl. Grizzly Hackle and Peacock…

Irresistible Adams Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Tail Wings Hackle Irresistible The Irresistible originated by Joe Messinger of Morgantown, West Virginia, is an extremely high floating pattern that is considered a general purpose attractor. The first pattern was called the Deer Hair Drake and was later renamed in the 1930’s…

Carlson’s Haze, Purple Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Tail Wingpost Hackle Carlson’s Purple Haze Designed by Andy Carlson in 2006, the Purple Haze is a variation of the Parachute Adams. It is used to match Blue Wing Olives, Mahogany Duns, Green Drakes, and Tricos. Andy guides on the Bitterroot River…

Buzz Hackle Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Tail Aft Hackle over Fore Hackle over Buzz Hackle The Buzz Hackle is a Fore and Aft pattern similar to the Sierra Bright Dot and the Grey Ugly. It was designed by Myrtle Powell in the 1920’s at their fly shop in Marysville,…

Brown Bivisible Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Hackle Bivisible The Bivisible is a classic fly that was introduced by Edward Hewitt (1866-1951) in 1926 in his book, “Telling on the Trout”. Mr. Hewitt states:“Dark colors are more visible to the trout from below than light colors, and, therefore, take more…