BLACK GNAT DRY FLY STEP BY STEP

BLACK GNAT

Material

Hook - Mustad 94840 or similar hook size 8-20
Thread - black
Tail - black hackle barbs
Body - black dubbing
Wing- dark grey duck wing quill

Jocelin & Sonie

AMY SPECIAL DRY FLY STEP BT STEP

AMY SPECIAL

History

A nice little dry fly good for small trout and atlantic salmon, this downwing fly is a great searching pattern from California Butte Creek area, It also can be tied in different colors and will bring trout to the surface in fast flowing rivers

Material

Hook - Mustad 94840 or similar hook size 10-18
Thread - black
Tail - red hackle barbs
Body - red fluo chenille
Wings - white calftail
Hackle - grizzly

HORNBERG FLY STEP BY STEP

HORNBERG

Frank Hornberg was the creator of the Hornberg Special. While the fly is familiar to many, relatively little is written or known about the man. He was born February 27, 1882 in Wisconsin. In 1920 he became the first game warden assigned to Portage county Wisconsin and served there until his retirement in 1950. Frank Hornberg was a classic example of an old-time game warden and a colorful public figure. He died June 15, 1966 in Santa Rosa, California. It was during the 1920’s he developed the fly that bears his name.

The standard Hornberg as typically described in current flyfishing literature and as sold commercially has a few salient features. It is tied on a 2 X long streamer hook. The shank is wound with silver tinsel. Yellow calf tail or small hackles are then tied in as an under wing. The wing consists of two gray mallard flank feathers tied parallel and vertically along the shank. Jungle cock eyes are attached so that the second eye shows. The front is then wound with grizzly dry fly hackle. Hook sizes usually range from 10 to 6.

Frank Hornberg initially designed the Hornberg Special as a dry fly. Several sources claim that he designed this pattern in the 1920’s. Then in the 1940’s the Weber Tackle Company helped him develop the fly for commercial production. The 1940’s were the golden age for domestic fly production and Portage county was then the home to five tackle companies. Of these the largest was the Weber Tackle Company. The Hornberg Special became one of the flies listed in their catalogue. It probably was this catalogue listing that contributed to the widespread distribution and usage of the Hornberg Special.


The Hornberg can be fished as a dry fly dead drift or fished as a streamer below the surface of the water. Alternately a combination approach can be employed. It can be cast out upstream and drifted until the fly swings below and dangles. Then the fly can be pulled under the surface and stripped in as a streamer. Fished as a dry fly the Hornberg is suggested to represent a caddis or stonefly. When stripped subsurface it is intended to represent a baitfish.

Material

Hook - dry fly 2x long size 6 to 16
Thread - black
Wing- yellow hackle barb and mallard flank
Body - flat silver tinsel
HACKLE- Grizzly and brown

Jocelin LeBlanc & Sonie Poulin

DOUBLE WING LIME FLY STEP BY STEP

DOUBLE WING LIME

Material

Hook - dry fly size 6 to 18
Thread - pale yellow
Tail - White sparkle yarn and green lime hackle
Wing- rear wing red brown elk hair
Front Wing- white calftail
Body -lime sparkle yarn
HACKLE- grizly

Jocelin & Sonie

KATMAI SLIDER FLY STEP BY STEP

KATMAI SLIDER

Material

Hook - Salmon dry turned up eye Size 2 to 12
Thread - fluorescent orange
Wing- Natural deer body hair
Body - White poly yarn
Tail- Dark elk or deer body hair
HACKLE- fairly long grizzly hackle

Jocelin & Sonie