Gray Timberline Emerger Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body and Ribbing Tail Wing Legs Timberline Emerger The Timberline Emerger was one of the first flies designed by Randall Kaufmann in the mid 1960’s. It is named after the numerous timberline lakes that Randall would hike into from the Eastside Sierra areas…
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Light Cahill Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Tail Wing Hackle Light Cahill (Wet) Dan Cahill of Port Jervis, N.Y. was a brakeman on the Erie and Lackawana Railroad in 1884. He was working in the Catskills on a hot and humid day. On board was a can of brood Rainbows…
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Western Coachman Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Ribbing Body ,4-6 strands Tail Wing Hackle Western Coachman The Western Coachman was designed by Wayne “Buz” Buszek of Visalia, CA in 1939 or 1940 as a wet fly. Buz would fish this pattern extensively throughout the Southern Sierra, particularly the Kings River, for…
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Leadwing Coachman Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Tag Ribbing Body Underbody Wing Hackle Leadwing Coachman The Leadwing Coachman finds it’s origins in the early 1820’s as an offering from a carriage driver, Tom Bosworth, to his English Lord for fishing. The original Coachman fly was a wet pattern of a peacock…
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RP Emerger Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Tail Thorax Hackle RP Emerger If you ever fished the Frying Pan river near Aspen, Colorado, you probably had met Roy Palm, the owner of the Frying Pan Anglers fly shop. Roy had a large number of friends over the years that fished…
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Pheasant Tail & Partridge Soft Hackle Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Tail Hackle Pheasant Tail & Partridge Soft Hackle The Pheasant Tail & Partridge Soft Hackle probably has it’s roots during the time of Dame Juliana Berners in 1496 when she wrote a treatise describing the only fly pattern used…
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October Caddis Soft Hackle Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Thorax Bead Hackle October Caddis Soft Hackle The October Caddis Soft Hackle fly pattern is credited to Curtis Fry of Fly Fish Food. He introduced this effective but simple pattern off their blog in Oct 2017. The October Caddis is an…
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Soft Hackle March Brown Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Thorax Tail Ribbing Hackle Soft Hackle March Brown The March Brown wet fly can be traced back as far as 1496 where Dame Juliana Berners refers to a “donne fly” in the month of March with a “body of dun wool…
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Hare’s Ear Soft Hackle Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook or Thread Body Weight Tail Ribbing Hackle Hare’s Ear Soft Hackle The Hare’s Ear Soft Hackle is a very old pattern coming from theIzaak Waltonera of 1653.Walton wrote of this pattern in his book,The Compleat Angler. Soft Hackles are basically a floss or…
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Gray Hackle Peacock Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Tag Body Tail Thorax Hackle Gray Hackle Peacock The Gray Hackle Peacock is a soft hackle wet fly that was one of the earliest flies tied. It originated sometime in the 1700’s. The fly resembles emerging caddis pupa. Some patterns will withhold a…
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