Category Archives: Fly Patterns

Smoke Jumper Bob Feiker

April Fly of the Month

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Smoke Jumper  | Bob Feiker

HOOK:  #14-#20 Tiemco 2487 scud hook
THREAD:  8/0 Uni or Veevus 12/0 to match
ABDOMEN: Root beer micro-tubing, wrapped goose biot, or stripped peacock herl; color to match hatch
THORAX: Twisted natural peacock herl or UV peacock Ice Dub
WING CASE & WING: 2-3 Trout Hunter CDC feathers with tips aligned, pulled over thorax and tied over hook eye.

NOTE: Wing length should be tied in 1 to 1-1/2 times the length of the body, forward of eye. Best to tie in long, then pinch off as needed on-stream.

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March Fly of the Month

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PT SCUD  | Tony Stifter

HOOK:  #12-#18 Daiichi 1130 or Tiemco 2487 scud hook
THREAD:  8/0 Black Uni or Veevus
BODY: Tan Arizona Dubbing
TAIL: Hen hackle or partridge
RIB: Black thread or Uni wire
SHELL BACK:  Natural Pheasant Tail

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February Fly of the Month

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CDC & Elk  | Emerger

HOOK:  #12-#18 Daiichi 1167 Klinkhammer or Tiemco 2487 scud hook
THREAD:  8/0 Brown Uni or Veevus
BODY:  Twist-wrapped tan CDC, brown marker for segmentation
UNDERWING:  Tan or amber CDC
OVERWING:  Natural elk or deer

 NOTE: A sparse shuck of Antron, Zelon, or MFC z-yarn tied in for tail is often very effective.

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Super Trooper © MATT EBBERS

January Fly of the Month

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PHOTO: © Matt Ebbers

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Ebbs Super Trooper  | Tan & Cream

By Matt Ebbers

Hooks: Gamakatsu b10s #2 for front

Thread: Veevus GSP 100D White

Back Section:
HOOK: #2 Daiichi 2461
TAIL: 2 stacked cream/tan marabou blood quills   |   Gold Ripple Ice fiber
BODY: UV polar chenille/cream schlappen complex twist, palmer forward
WING: Tan marabou blood quill

Articulation: 19 strand, .018″ Beadalon,  Red bead

Front Section:
EYES: Double pupil lead dumbbell eyes
FLASH: Gold Ripple Ice Fiber
BODY: Cream schlappen and Gold Polar Chenille complex twist together, palmer forward
WING: Gold Ripple Ice Fiber    |    Tan marabou blood quill
LEGS: 2 Brown Pumpkiin Fly Enhancer legs
GILLS: Claret Ice Dub (Hareline ICE63)
HEAD: Butter Belly Bruiser Blend Jr.  (top) Cream Bruiser Blend Jr. (Bottom) Stacked and tied in one clump behind D-bell eyes and one in front.  Trimmed.

You can other flies of Matt’s at his Instagram page:     ebbsforce1

 

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March Fly of the Month

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Moose Klinkhammer:

By Justin Bowman
Hook: Daiichi 1160 Klinkhammer hook #16 -18
Thread: Veevus olive 8/0 thread
Body: two moose mane fibers of differing colors coated with UV resin
Thorax: black beaver dubbing
Post: white polypropylene yarn
Hackle: Whiting speckled badger rooster

 

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February Fly of the Month

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Flash Ass Quill Nymph:

By Joel Ebbers
Hook: Firehole 316 curved nymph hook size 14
Bead: Hareline tungsten orange bead 7/64″
Thread: 10/0 Veevus black
Tail: Coq De Leon Speckled Medium Ginger
Flash: Veevus medium Holographic Tinsel
Body: Natural Stripped Peacock Quill | Coat body with LOON UV flow.
Thorax: Black SLF Spikey Squirrel Dubbing

 

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Vinyl rib caddis-Justin Bowman

January Fly of the Month

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Vinyl Rib Caddis:

By Justin Bowman
Hook: TMC 2488 #14 -16
Thread: Veevus olive 8/0 thread
Body: Olive midge vinyl tubing
Collar: Peacock/pheasant tail ice dub and gray cdc (both in dubbing loops)

 

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June Fly of the Month

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Cranefly Soft Hackle

By Greg Meyer
Hook: TMC 101  #14 -16
Thread: 8/0 Yellow Uni
Thorax: Small ball of sulphur orange superfine to splay the soft hackle
Body: Trout Hunter yellow goose biot (can substitute yellow or cream dry fly dubbing with copper wire rib)
Tail/shuck: Zelon (brown or gray) fibers
Hackle: 1-2 turns over-sized light dun hen neck

NOTE: Drop this behind a Sulphur dry fly. Sometimes, especially on the Rush the trout are keyed on yellow crane flies. If not, it looks like a sulphur emerger too.

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May Fly of the Month

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Hi-Vis Parachute Adams

By Greg Meyer
Hook: TMC 100 or 101 #12 – 20
Thread: 16/0 gray Veevus
Body: Gray Trout Hunter goose biot
Wing/post: Gray Hi-Vis (or antron)
Hackle: Cree rooster hackle
Tail: 10-12 Coque-deLeon hackle fibers
Thorax: Super Fine Adams gray dry fly dubbing

NOTE: Substitute a black post for evening or overcast days. I also change up using different color Hi-Vis in bright colors to help with size choice in fly box (e.g., Pink for #20s, orange for #18s, chartreuse for 16s, etc)

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April Fly of the Month

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Purple Reign Prince Nymph

By Greg Meyer
Hook: TMC 3761 #10 – 16
Thread: 8/0 purple Uni-thread
Bead: Gold tungsten appropriate to hook size
Body: Purple dyed peacock
Wing: White goose biot
Tail: Golden goose biot
Rib: Purple Krystal Flash
Collar: Purple SLF tri-lobal mixed with gray UV Ice-Dub
Hackle: Two turns black cdc
Weight: Ten turns .20 lead-free wire

NOTE: This is one of my go-to steelhead flies that I’ve been using the last few years. It seemed appropriate to be the F.O.M. given the passing of Prince this week. I just pinched this fly out of my fly box, so it is pretty ratty looking. I’ll get a better fly and photo after we get back from the BigHorn. ~G

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