Little black diving caddis tutorial

 Here is a tutorial for the diving the caddis wet fly. I always tie a few small black ones. They work really well on streams with good little black caddis populations.  The fly is effective almost all day long and is best fished down and across with mends to allow the fly to drift naturally or dead, then allow to swim when the mend straightens. 

Ready 2 Pop tying video

Materials

Hook- Daiichi 1180 12-18

Thread- Black Uni 8/0

Tail- Teal flank dyed claret

Abdomen- Teal flank dyed claret

Rib- Kreinik Metallics  Blending Filament 032

Thorax- Marabou butt material form the base of a claret teal flank feather, blended with STS claret 

Wing case- Evazote foam black

Diving caddis video

Materials

Hook- Daiichi Alec Jackson North country spider hook

Thread- Uni 8/0 Tan

Body- Polar dub Tan\

Wing- Mallard flank dyed wood duck

Wing topping- Antron yarn white/clear

Hackle- Hebert miner hen neck hackle  Barred dark ginger

The H.O.H. dun and the sulphur hatch.

   Ok, so I belong to a group on a fly fishing website called the fly of the month group. This months fly was any H.O.H. fly. H.O.H. meaning hackle on hook.

 My friend Tom tied up some duns in a variant style, with the trimmed hackle for bodies.  I thought they looked pretty cool. So I decided to twist up a thorax dun.  I figured why not do a favorite dry fly pattern of mine and seeing how the hackle was getting trimmed for the body the v cut hackle just made sense to me.

 The fly consists of only hackle and thread. So there is nothing on it that can absorb water, thus making it a perfect dry fly. The idea that Tom had behind the hackle cut body was for it to give the translucent effects that the naturals have to them.  Sounds reasonable to me, so I twisted one up in sulphur and headed on out to a local freestoner for the sulphur hatch. 

  So with my trusty 2 wt and H.O.H. I made my way to the stream at the last bit of twilight.  I went a favorite pool of mine. It consist of heavy riffle leading into and long tail out.  I can always find some trout sipping and gulping insects near or in the tail out. 
  On the way to the water I was being buzzed by sulphur duns and spinners flying about.  I just hoped the rain would hold out long enough for me to get a trout or two.

The clouds cleared a bit and the moon came out and bathed the pool in moon light. I could see fishy noses poking up from the water every so often. I made my first cast and landed a bit short of the feeding lane. The next was on point and the trout took the H.O.H.. A good fight later I had the hen landed.
   I hooked several fish and one was very large as i couldnt really move the fish with my 2 wt. haha. The fly popped on that fish and I remembered why I didnt use mustad hooks anymore...... I ran out of daiichi 1100 in 14! and had some mustad laying around.

I'm not a great photographer by any means! but I'm no photographer at all in the dark! But you can still make out the fly. The proofs in the pudding as they say.  I will do a tutorial of this technique very soon.  And my daiichi hooks should be on there way! Thank you J.W trout

Snowshoe cripple video

Hook- Daiichi 1180 #16
Thread- Uni 8/0 olive
Abdomen- Pheasant tail and brown marabou in a dubbing loop
Wire- xsmall utc silver
Thorax- olive super fine
Wing- Snowshoe rabbit
Hackle- Dun saddle hackle

Early season baetis

Here are the baetis aka blue wing olives, from yesterday when I was on the water. I am sure they were out by the hundreds on this rainy day.  I will try and get some photos of the spinners this week if I am lucky enough to be there when they come back.  The flies were a good size 16 and easy to spot on the water. Always enjoy watching a mayfly track down and into the mouth of a rising trout.   Be sure to note that the males are not olive. They are more grey and tan with a almost black thorax. The females are a deep olive.

March brown wetfly

 The march brown wetfly is an old wet fly, and very effective one in the mid spring right on through the season.  I like to give it a little more pop/flash/ with the u.v. high test dubbin. I also will tie them with the standard orange head. Winged or wingless, it's a great fly to fish, that will catch trout any where.

Materials
Hook- Daiichi 1560 #10-14
Thread- Yellow/orange uni 8/0
Tail- Bronze Mallard
Rib- Med. gold oval tinsel(lagartun)
Body- U.V. high test or hares ear
Hackle- Brown partridge
Wing- Hen pheasant secondary.

Catchem Flymph tutorial

 Here is what i call my catchem flymph. It is hands down one of my best producing flymphs i use in the spring straight through the season.

  It's a spin off from a hare's ear softy or flymph. But using the u.v. high test dubbing blend along with the rusty Montana fly co midge body thread in combination with the rusty orangutan ice fur and dark partridge.

 This fly is fine tuned, meaning each element adds to the fly patterns effectiveness. I have tied many different combination of this fly pattern. But this combination is the

 the golden ticket.

 If this fly is on my line in a cast of wets, I always know what fly the trout took as soon as they strike. I havnt really spoke about this fly here on the corner, as its been a little secret of mine.

Even if you dont fish wets, this fly can be fished dead drift on the bottom and it produces wonderfully.  From bottom to top, the catchem does what the name says.

Now lets twist one up already! 

Materials

Hook- Daiichi 1560 10-16

Thread- Montana fly co midge body thread, Rust

Shuck- Ice fur, Rusty orangutan 

Body- U.V. High Test Blend

Rib- Montana fly co midge body thread, Rust

Hackle- DARK partridge hackle

Now go catchem!  If your interested in some u.v. high test you can email me at www.jeuflies@gmail.com

Johnny's A.G.P. wetfly

  I like making a wetfly from a bird skin, and this one comes all from a golden pheasant skin. The fly is very buggy and the trout sure like it. A golden pheasant skin is a wealth of materials for tying flies. Every bench should have one at least.  Twist of these guys up and give them a go in up coming months, the fly has served me well and I hope it will do you well also. 

Materials

Hook- Daiichi 1560 #12-14

Thread- Uni 8/0 black

Tail- Golden pheasant tippet

Rib- Small silver oval tinsel

Body- Red tip marabou from rump of golden pheasant

Thorax- Just a bit of the red tips from the marabou dubbed 

Hackle- Rusty grizzly shoulder feather

Wing- Golden Pheasant secondary feather.

Snowshoe cripple

Here is slight variation of the Quigley cripple mayfly. This is the way I like to tie them. I use snowshoe hair, usually dun or some shade of grey, but sometimes I use white as well. The post doesn't matter much other than for visibility. The original calls for deer hair but I don't care much for having to use deer hair, and the snowshoe dries easily. Where as the deer hair becomes water logged and then the pattern is screwed.
  I like the dubbing loop with wire method for these flies. It adds just enough weight to get the ass of the fly down in the film but not enough weight to pull the whole fly under. It has been my experience that the pattern works best when it floats in this manner. Be sure to have some cripples in your boxes for the up coming hatches, its a true killer.

Not the greatest pictures but ya get the idea. :).
Materials
Hook- Daiichi 1170 #16
Thread- Veevus gray olive 16/0
Tail- Hen pheasant tail, and brown marabou
Body- Hen pheasant tail and brown marabou spun in a silver wire dubbing loop.
Wire- x-small utc silver wire
Thorax- olive dun superfine dubbin
Hackle- Dun dry fly hackle
Post- Dun snowshoe

Hackle stacker video

Materials

Hook- Daiichi 1180

Thread- uni 8/0 light olive

Tail/shuck- Rusty orangutang ice fur

Body- Adams grey super fine dubbin

Hackle- Brown and grizzly dry fly hackle

 

The hackle stacker tutorial

 The hackle stacker is great dry fly pattern. It was devised by Bob Quigley. The fly utilizes a paraloop technique by winding the hackle around a post and then pulling them over the top of thorax. The pattern can be a bit of a bitch to tie at first but once you do a couple you will have it down.  You can also utilize a gallows tool for this task but I find it as easy to just use my finders.  So lets tie one up, the tutorial is of an adams, but this pattern can be tied to match any mayflies.




Materials
Hook- Daiichi 1180 #10-24
Thread- Grey Uni 8/0
Tail- Mix of brown and grizzly
Abdomen- Adams grey super fine dubbing
Hackle- Brown and grizzly rooster hackle
Loop- Tying thread
Thorax- Adams grey superfine dubbing

Underside or trouts view, Looks tasty to me.  The best part of the this fly is you can stroke the hackle down to each side it makes a great hackle wing spinner! 

The Flutter stone

Here is my tie for a spent or dying stonefly. You can tie them in a variety of colors to match the stones.  Be sure to set the player to hd. Use the little gear just below the player.   Be sure to do this with all my videos as they are all 1080 hd.

Materials
Hook- Daiichi 1180 #16
Thread- Uni 8/0 dark brown
Body- Black foam
Under wing- White/clear z-lon
Wing- White poly yarn
Front- Black superfine dubbin
Hackle- Grizzley rooster hackle

A quick tie for those small mayflies

Materials

Hook- Daiichi ultimate dry fly hook

Thread- Olive dun

Tail- Dun hackle fibers

Abdomen- Tying thread

Thorax- Light olive super fine

Hackle- Dun

fly tying desk modification

Royal flymph tying video

Here is my tie of a royal flymph. It works great like all royals do and its durable. Fish the fly like any other flymph or wet fly. Dont forget to fish it right in the film.

Materials

Hook- Daiichi 1560 12-18

Thread- Black uni-8/0

Tail- Brown hen neck

Body- Butt- peacock hurl, mid- red antron yan, front- peacock hurl

Rib- X-small red wire

Hackle- 1 white and 1 brown hen neck

Tups Indispensable flymph video

 Tups indispensable has a very secretive history behind it. G.E.M. Skues wrote about and many have talked about it.  From what I gathered from reading everything I could find on it was the fly was yellow bodied, and the thorax while wet, was pink.  They also used a honey dun hackle.
  I put this fly together, basing it off what i found out. It's not the true tups by any means but there are similarities, and from my fishing with the T.I.F.(tups indispensable flymph) it just may be as effective.  All I know is the trout certainly approve of it and that is all that matters to me.

Materials

Hook- Daiichi alec Jackson north country spider #11

Thread- Pearsall's silk  Primrose

Tail- Honey dun hackle fibers

Abdomen- Tying thread

Thorax- J.U.s tup blend(white and pink rabbit, and hares mask, and U.V. pink ice dub)

Hackle- Honey dun hen neck

Sparkle Midge pupa, tutorial

 This is a very simple yet extremely effective pattern. It is a great fly for midge pupa and the trout agree. I never go to any limestone stream without this pattern in my midge box.  I first heard of this pattern through the writings of Gary Borger quite some time ago. The fly goes hand in hand with the g-gnat. Give me a box with g-gnats and sparkle midge pupas and ill catch trout on any spring creek or tail water. 
  Tie these guys up in small sizes ie 20-26, and use different colored threads for different effects as the body is translucent.  Be sure to tie them in red, yellow, black, olive, and brown.
   Fish them with a greased leader(floatant on the leader) or dry dropper, whenever you see trout making those midge rings, and be sure to be ready, cause you will be surprised sometimes at the size of trout you can catch while midging. 

Materials

Hook- Daiichi 1110 20-26

Thread- Black 8/0

Rib- x-small silver wire

Body- Clear(white) or cream antron