Fly Tying
Archive Of Patterns

Fly Swaps:

• Spring 2005 Swap #1: Dries and Surface Terrestrials
• Spring 2005 Swap #2: Streamers and Nymphs
• Spring 2004 Swap

Dry Flies:

• Foam Bodied Beetle
  Here's a pattern that only a depth-charge can sink. By Tom Kilfoil.
• Balsa Poppers
  Tom Kilfoil shows how to make some nifty bass poppers with balsa wood.
• Mike's Tuolumne Hopper
  A laced foam hopper by Mike McGuire.
• Green Drake Dun
  A laced foam Green Drake / Hexagenia by Mike McGuire.
• Hexagenia Emerger
  A hexagenia emerger pattern as tied by Tom Kilfoil.
• Hexagenia Emerger Redux
  A variation on Tom's previous hexagenia emerger pattern. 

Nymphs:

• The Rollover Scud
  A killer High Sierra Lake Flly
• The Clouser Crayfish
  Rodney Chun demonstrates a useful crayfish pattern for trout and bass.
• Hare's Ear Flash
  Tom Kilfoil demonstrates a glitzier version of the reliable Hare's Ear.
• Hexagenia Nymph
  Tom Kilfoil designs a variation of a nymph inspired by the famed Lake Almanor hex hatch.
• Duck Season means Soft Hackle Feathers
  Mallard and wood duck flank feathers are well known, but teal, widgeon, and sprig flank feathers are excellent for soft hackle flies, as well. Tom Kilfoil explains.
• Soft Hackle Charlie
  A variant of the soft hackle fly designed by Mike McGuire. A killer pattern, especially for emerging caddis pupa.
• Herl Brush Soft Hackle
  A soft hackle wet fly which imitates a caddis pupa. Used on the Lower Sac by Mike McGuire with great success.
• Soft Hackle Stoneflies
  Another Mike McGuire pattern.
• Soft Hackle Streamer
  Another Mike McGuire pattern.
• The Johnny Be Good
  John Margaroni's Killer Snake River Streamer

Saltwater Flies:

• Curly Tail Striper Flies
  Tom Kilfoil re-introduces a deadly striper fly.
• Clouser Minnow
  Tied by Bob Clouser originally for smallmouth bass, now a very popular saltwater pattern.
• Baja Alf
  A version of Bill and Kate Howe's Alf pattern that has proved to be very successfull at East Cape region of Baja.

Technique:

• Furled Mylar
  Furled leaders spin off an interesting technique for making tying materials.
• The Four Temperaments of Peacock Herl
  There's one right and three wrong ways to wind herl. Here's why.