Martian Invasion | Peter Stitcher
Peter Stitcher | Ascent Fly Fishing | ascentflyfishing.com Trout need to see your flies if they are going to eat them. This can be a challenge with traditional fly patterns when the sun starts to sink but the bite remains hot and trout look to continue to feed throughout the night. The Martian series of flies […]
Flies on the Barbee – Bonus Pattern #2
Mini Chubby Chernobyl Hook: Partridge K12ST Thread: Semperfli nano silk 12/0 Body: Semperfli 2.5 mm black foam Wing: Semperfli dirty bug yarn Legs: Semperfli orange barred legs UV: Solarez Bone Dry on the whip finish
Flies on the Barbee – Bonus Pattern #1
LB’s Flutter-X Hook: Partridge SLD2 Thread: Semperfli Nano Silk Tail: tan kip tail fibers Body: Semperfli tan kapok dubbing Wing: deer hair Hackle: Whiting Farms Badger
Water Lure Sally
Tying the Water Lure Sally: Hook: Size 10-16 (Size 12 shown) Ahrex Freshwater 531 Hot spot/Head: Semperfli 12/0 red flat waxed thread Thread: Semperfli 12/0 black Nano Silk Thread Body: Yellow Holographic Tinsel and Semperfli Perfect Quill in medium, covered in Deer Creek Diamond Fine Resin Underwing: 2mm yellow fly tying foam, cut with River […]
Bruce’s DDP Stone
Bruce’s DDP Stone | Justin Bruce @justinbruceflies As seen in the Winter 2019 issue of Fly Fusion Magazine Sitting at the vise, I thought, I want a heavy, buggy, leggy, stonefly that uses my Houdini-weave and lays the smack down like Diamond Dallas Page. Blame it on the Dark Side of the Moon soundtrack playing […]
Jig Sassi Solution
“I’m the first to admit that I’m not very skilled or experienced at European-style nymphing, but I am fascinated by the techniques, the flies and the people who are obsessed with it. When they get into fishing this way they often don’t want to do anything else,” Jig Sassi Solution Hook: Jig hook, #12-16 Bead: […]
Pretzel Caddis | Jake Vanderweyden
Hook – Firehole Sticks 315 #14-16 Bead – 3MM Round Tungsten Thread – UTC 70D Black Body – UTC Ultra Wire Chartreuse & Green Thorax – Natural Rabbit Dubbing / Ice Dub Black Peacock Fly Tied by Jake Vanderweyden Check out all 6 patterns of Jake’s Spring Arsenal in Volume 17, Issue 2 – grab a […]
Purple Wet | Irene Vucko
Purple Wet Fly recipe: Tag: Silver Tinsel Tail: Golden Pheasant Tippet, Dyed Purple Body: Charcoal Floss Rib: Silver Tinsel Collar: Purple Hackle Wing: Black Fox, with 2 strands of flash Collar: Black Hen Hackle Cheeks: Jungle Cock over Starling Follow @speygirl today!
Baetis Spent Spinner
Hook: TMC 100, 16 Thread: Veevus 14/0, B14, Olive Body: Hareline Turkey Biot Quills, Olive Thorax: Spirit River Fine & Dry UV2, Dark Olive Baetis Tail: Fibetts/Mayfly Tails Olive, Olive Hackle: Whiting Dry Fly Cape, Medium Dun Tied by Torbjorn Tiltnes @torbjorn.tiltnes
Bruce’s Houdini Fly
Written and tied by Justin Bruce (@justinbruceflies) I fish for fun. If we are fortunate, we might experience a rare moment, a “spot in time” as the poet, Wordsworth calls it, outside where we want to pause the clock and just sit in that moment. For me, such moments have resonated more and more on the […]