Pacific Northwest Trout
flys and fly tying info
Check out this outstanding Alaska
Rainbow trout pattern !
This pattern we simply call the Bow Buster
Leech. This pattern was created in 1996 while I was guiding at Chris Golls Rainbow River Lodge.
(This ugly little bugger has been kept top secret until now.) I will now let the cat
out of the bag.
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Here's
What you need to create this trout slamming critter.
Gather up some crosscut white bunny, some little plastic wiggle tails(available from
cabelas), some .030 lead wire, some 3x #4 or #2 Streamer hooks, White thread, a spool of
pink chenille and some lead barbell eyes. This fly goes deep fast and can be fished
with or without a sink tip. And yes there really are white leeches in Alaska, (a
black and olive combo also works excellent on this pattern).
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Here's
How To Tie It:
put 15 wraps of lead on the hook and tie on the little plastic white wiggle tail.
Cement everything. Now tie in the bunny strip at the rear of the fly a 4" strip
is usually sufficient. wrap your thread forward to the eye of the hook and wrap the
bunny strip to within a 1/4" of the eye. tie off the strip and wrap a lead
barbell eye at the top of the shank. Tie on the tag end of the chenille and make
several wraps over the eyes and the shank and tie off.
Your Done! |
The October Caddis
a great dry fly pattern for sea-run cutties in -- you got it-- OCTOBER
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Hook: size 10, light wire. Thread: brown
mono cord. Body: auburn or burnt orange "pseudo seal" covered
on top with texas white tail deer hair (which also creates the tail for this fly). Hackle:
Light brown or varigated brown. Wing: Columbia blacktail deer from the
bucktail basilar hair section of the tail. |
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Super simple to tie, start by dubbing in the burnt orange body first then
wrap the white tail deer hair over the top with tips out over the bend of the hook to form
the tail.cover hair on the body with head cement. Wrap the hackle (only six turns) in
front of the body and then tie the wing down over the top. Wing tips should extend
uniformaly to the tip of the tail. Coat the head liberaly with cement. |
Next Fly Pattern
"BULLHEAD"
This is a sculpin fly that is a favorite dish for the
hugest most gigantic trout in North America, just ask em.
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hook: no#'s 1/0, 1, 2, or 4. heavy
wire. i.e.> tmc 7999, partridge cs10/2 etc..
thread: black or olive heavy mono body: varigated
chenille in black/olive or black/amber, copper wire and a bit of flashabou
wing and forward hackle: dyed olive or amber grizzly saddle hackle. Weighting:
.030 lead wire and medium lead barbell eyes painted yellow with black pupil
(yeah yeah I know, leads an enviro no no, but so is driving your car) |
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Wrap in several turns of thread, wrap on twelve
turns of the .030 lead, wrap thread over the lead and tie on the section of chenille and
copper wire near the bend (see top picture). Leave the wire hang and wrap the thread and
chenille forward tying off 1/4 inch from eye. Match 4 hackles side by side and 3/4 of an
inch from the tips strip off the fibers on one side. Lay the hackles over the top of the
hook with stripped section down and the tips hanging back from the bend. Now tie the
hackle on matuka style with the copper wire. Tie off 1/4 inch from eye. |
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Make 2 generous pectoral fins by stripping off fiber
clumps from the bottom of the hackles and tie in each fiber clump symmetricaly on either
side of the shank just forward of the wing . |
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Tie in 2 two inch strands of pearl flashabou (trailing
back under and to the point of the hook) then tie on a 4 inch section of chenille
and " X wrap" on the barbell eyes to the top of the shank. Wrap the chenille
over the eyes, building up a substantial "head" for the fly. Tie off the
chenille with the thread in front of the barbell eyes and coat with head cement. |
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permission will be cut up and used for catfish chum.
