KYLEY SHRIMPS
Kyley Red Shrimp
TIED BY SONIE POULIN
Material
Hook - SALMON single
Thread - Red
Tail- Bucktail or Calf Tail RED
Wing- golden pheasant
Body - rear black floss / MID section gold mylar / Front black floss
Tag- silver tinsel oval
rib- silver tinsel oval
Collar- red hackle mid and front
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CRACKLEBACK
The Crackleback is essentially a gussied-up Woolly Worm. Like all Woolly Worms, it looks like nothing at all in particular, but the pattern has “bugginess” in spades. All Woolly Worms can be fished using virtually any subsurface presentation, but the Crackleback’s unique construction (like that of the Griffith’s Gnat) allows it to be fished on the surface, as well. Unlike most Woolly Worms, which are tied on heavy-wire hooks and feature chenille bodies and soft wet-fly hackle, the Crackleback is typically tied on a light-wire hook and dressed with stiff hackle and a body of tightly wrapped dry-fly dubbing or turkey rounds a feather fiber that looks and ties like a cross between pheasant- tail barbs and turkey biots.
Either way, a greased Crackleback floats like a cork. Tied in sizes 12 through 18 and in a variety of color combinations ranging from light dun to Adams gray, the Crackleback works surprisingly well fished dry during a wide variety of insect emergences, either on a dead drift or given an occasional twitch. Though this fly is most popular on put-and take Ozark spring creeks, where some anglers will fish nothing else, it is one of my more effective dun patterns during pale morning dun hatches on the Firehole.
This pattern was created by Ed Storey of Feathercraft in St. Louis, MO. It has been around for sometime, but the materials used to tie it have changed considerably over the past decade. The materials and colors as shown below have been very productive on several continents. The real beauty of this pattern is that it can be fished as a dry, in or under the film, and weighted it is a good nymph pattern. It does not imitate any particular insect, but the fish love it. And it will produce fish all day long. This is an easy fly to tie, and is very productive.
Material
Hook - dry fly 2x long size 8 to 14
Thread - black or olive
shellback - 2 to 3 peacock herl strand
Body - pale yellow or yellow olive dubbing
HACKLE- dark furnace brown hackle palmered
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H & L VARIANT
Material
Hook - Dry fly hook size 8 to 18
Thread - black
Wing- white calftail
Body - peacock herl stripped and peacock herl front
Tail- white calftail
HACKLE- brown hackle
COACHMAN
The history of the Coachman fly is well documented as it was originated by the Coachman to the Queen of England. The original pattern was tied with a white duck quill wing. Tied with the deer hair wing or the Impala tail white wing, it was a perfect fly for fishing the fast pocket water that he much preferred to the quieter water on the river.
A good dusk pattern and an excellent night fly, both on river and still waters.
According to fly fishing folk lore the creator of the 'Coachman' was Tom Bosworth reputedly coachman to George 1V, William 1V and Queen Victoria .
The fly he created lives on in fly boxes all over the world as one of the most successful and reliable patterns on both sides of the atlantic.
It was created in the 1830's as a wet fly but soon proved its' effectiveness when used as a dry fly
Material
Hook - Mustad 94840 or similar hook size 10-18
Thread - black
Tail - brown hackle barbs
Body - peacock herl
Wing white hackle tip or white duck quill section
HACKLE- BROWN
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BIVISIBLE BROWN
HISTORY
Nobody knows who was the first angler to wrap a feather around the shank of a hook and catch a trout with it. The "palmer fly" goes all the way back to the days of Charles Cotton, who made them in many colors and believed they imitated caterpillars. The bivisible is simply a palmer fly with a turn of white hackle in front so the angler can see it easily. We New Englanders use it for probing pockets and riffles in fast-moving little brook-trout streams and as a generic caddis fly imitation. It floats forever, skitters nicely, and is easy to see. You'll have to ask the trout what they're thinking when they eat it. Probably not a caterpillar.
Material
Hook - Mustad 94840 or similar hook size 8-18
Thread - brown
Tail - brown hackle barbs
Body - brown and white hackle
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