Dry Flies

Hexagenia Spinner Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Thorax Wingcase Wing and Hexagenia Spinner This Hexagenia Spinner was developed by Dave Lucca of Hayward, Wisconsin. Hexagenia’s are renown for the Great Lakes region and many of the hex patterns originate from that area. Certain areas, such as Lake Almanor, within the…

Hairwing Dun, Green Drake Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Thorax Ribbing Tail Wing Hackle Hairwing Dun Rene Harrop designed the Hairwing Dun during the 1980’s while he fished the Firehole River. Mayflies were hatching and he didn’t have a good imitation. He selected an Elk Hair Caddis, clipped a few…

Hackle Stacker, PMD Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Thorax Tail Post Hackle Hackle Stacker The Hackle Stacker is a mayfly emerger pattern. It utilizes a paraloop method of wrapping hackles around a looped monofilament and bringing the monofilament over a dubbed thorax to a tie-off location just behind the eye.…

Gulper Special Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Thorax Tail Wingpost Hackle Gulper Special Al Troth of Dillon, Montana came up with theGulper Special in 1971 while fishing the callibaetis hatch on Hebgen Lake in southwest Montana. The term “Gulper” comes from the large rainbows and browns which would cruise the…

Gray’s Hex Dun Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Thorax Ribbing Shuck Wing Hackle Gray’s Hex Dun Gray’s Hex Dun is designed by Lincoln Gray, Manager of Sierra Stream and Mountain in Chico, CA . Lincoln operates a stillwater fly fishing school on Lake Almanor and has been developing a series…

Foam Emerger, PMD Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Shuck Wingcase Hackle Foam Emerger Craig Mathews, Owner of Blue Ribbon Flies, came up with this pattern sometime in the 1980’s. It incorporated a trailing shuck of Z-lon and a 1mm foam segment that was doubled over at the thorax region. A…

Floating Nymph, BWO Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Thorax Ribbing Tail Wing Legs Floating Nymph There are many floating nymphs using foam, cdc, or hackles to float the nymph at the surface. Mike Lawson of Henry’s Fork Anglers developed an interesting pattern using a ball of poly dubbing to float…

Blue Wing Olive Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Thorax Tail Wing Hackle Extended Body Mayflies Extended Body Mayflies are not difficult to tie. They add an element of realism to the dry fly presentation that is often a trigger mechanism for the trout to strike. There are a number of…

Harrop’s CDC Captive Dun, BWO Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Tail under Wingcase Thorax Harrop’s CDC Captive Dun Rene and Bonnie Harrop are fly designers/fly fishing couple out of St. Anthony, Idaho . Living next to the Henry’s Fork, they have refined many fly patterns that relate to mayfly hatches.…

Callibaetis CDC Cripple Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Tail over Wing , on sides Thorax CDC Cripple Dun Rene Harrop designed the CDC Cripple Dun utilizing the CDC feather for the wing. The high degree of floatation allows this pattern to float within the film despite being small. The tail…