Boots Allen: Tara-X
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16m
RECIPE:
Hook: standard dry fly hook, sizes 4 to 10.
Thread: 3/0 in gray, yellow, green, brown, cream, or orange.
Tail: golden pheasant neck feathers or Amherst pheasant neck feathers.
Body: 1 mm two or single color foam. Dubbing can be used as an alternative. A variety of color can be used.
Hackle: brown or red.
Wing: Siberian brown bear hair or grizzly bear hair.
Head: 2 mm foam – brown, tan, or gray.
Mandible: Ostrich plumes or peacock herl.
Legs: brown rubber, Flexi-floss, Silli Legs, or Spanflex.
Indicator: 2 mm foam.
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Boots Allen: Double Humpy
RECIPE:
Hook: Any standard dry fly hook, sizes 6 to 10.
Thread: Yellow, orange, green, or red 3/0 flat wax.
Tail and Body: Mule deer hair from the neck and facial area.
Hackle: Fine grizzly hackle. I typically will use silver or gold label hackle from Whiting Farms. -
Boots Allen: Day-2 Midge Pupa
RECIPE:
Hook: TMC 3769, size 18
Wing/Gills: White cdc puff
Head/Bead: Clear glass or tin, copper, or tungsten bead
Body: Olive, tan or gray monochord
Ribbing: Black 8/0 thread
Collar: Peacock herl -
Boots Allen: Monkey Mouse
RECIPE:
Hook: Mustad 34011, size 4 to size 2/0
Thread: Black 3/0
Tail: Strip of antelope hide colored black
Shellback: Two strips of black and white, two-tone, 2mm foam
Body: Black Ice chenille
Legs: Four strips of black rubber, knotted to form knee and ankle joints
