Dry Flies

Renegade Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Tag Front Hackle , 1-2 sizes larger than Rear hackle Rear Hackle Renegade The Renegade is a Fore and Aft pattern can be used on both river and lake. In small sizes it can work as a midge cluster pattern and, in larger sizes,…

Mother Shucker Gray Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Shuck Thorax Hackle Post Mother Shucker A foam body for a midge is not often used but, if you can do it, it provides great floatability. In Utah, there are some very large midges, in fact the “mother” of all midges, the…

Martis Midge Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Tail Wing Hackle Martis Midge Designed by Ralph Cutter, a fly fishing guide and naturalist from Nevada City, CA. The Martis Midge imitates the emerging blood midge which can be found in most of the alkaline lakes of the Eastern Sierra. The Martis…

Griffith’s Gnat Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook or Thread Body Ribbing Hackle Griffith’s Gnat The Griffith’s Gnat usually is used to imitate clusters of midge emergers or mating chironomids. The origin of the pattern is often attributed to George Griffith, one of the founders of Trout Unlimited. However, according to a close…

Grey Duster Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Hackle Grey Duster The Grey (the English spelling of ‘Gray’) Duster goes back about a hundred years developed by Welsh anglers on the River Dee in England. It requires just two components, Hare’s mask dubbing and a Badger Rooster saddle. It was designed…

Cluster Midge Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Tail Wingpost Hackle Cluster Midge Midges can make up almost 50% of the trout’s diet. The individual midge can be quite small so rather than tying a size 26, why not create a cluster of these midges on a size 16-18 hook. The…

California Mosquito Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Ribbing Tail Wing Hackle California Mosquito The California Mosquito pattern goes back to sometime within the 1950’s. During the ’60’s and 70’s, this pattern was one of the most popular dry flies within the Sierra Nevada. The pattern even became a popular graying…

Black Gnat Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Butt Body Tail Wing Hackle Black Gnat The Black Gnat is a traditional Classic Fly dating back to the times of Dame Juliana Berners in 1496. From her book,A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle(1496), the earliest known volume on sport fishing, Dame Berners…

Chironomid Suspender Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Thorax Shuck Wing Ribbing Chironomid Suspender The Chironomid Suspender is a good emerger pattern when fish are feeding just below the surface. The CDC will allow the fly to float just below the surface. The fly will sit in the water at an…