The Original Library

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  • Doug McKnight: Lowrider Sculpin

    RECIPE:

    Hook: Wapsi Super Jig Hook
    Thread: Flat waxed nylon
    Tail: Olive zonker strip
    Belly: Mouse Grey Zonker strip, rainbow crystal flash
    Fins: Dyed Olive pheasant saddle feathers
    eyes: large mono nymph eyes
    Head: Dark olive furry foam, glued with Zap Goo

  • Al Ritt: ARF Midge Pupa

    RECIPE:

    Hook: Tiemco 2487
    Antennea: Organza, White
    Bead: Glass, Gunmetal
    Underbody: Thread, Red
    Rib: Wire, X-Small Silver
    Overbody: Micro Tubing, Clear
    Wing: Organza, White
    Thorax: Hare’e Ice Dub, Harder’s Bloody Black

  • Dave McKee: Carp Pattern

    RECIPE:

    Hook: Dai Riki 710 #4
    Thread: Black Fwn
    Tail/Wing: Black Rabbit Strip
    Rib: Copper Wire
    Body: verigated chenille
    Fin: India Hen
    Head: Black Deer Hair / White Deer Hair

  • Josh Stanish: Baetis Wonder Nymph

    RECIPE:

    Hook: TMC 5212 # 16-20
    Thread: 70 Denier Gray Brown UTC
    Tail: Dark Dun Hackle Fibers
    Body: Olive Standard Tubing
    Thorax: # 29 Hareline Dubbing
    Wing: Grizzly Hackle

  • Doug McKnight: Sweetgrass Hopper

    RECIPE:

    Hook: #6-10 2xl nymph hook
    Thread: UTC 140 Hopper Yellow
    Body: Rainy's Crosslink foam 4mm, cream or tan
    Legs: Rainy's Barred Rubber legs, tan or Yellow
    Wingcase: Tan opaque Razor foam
    Wing: Tan Neer Hair, or Antron yarn

  • Matt Wilhelm: Peacock Softhackle

    RECIPE:

    Thread: 6/0 Black
    Hook: Dai Riki #125 emerger hook sz 14-16
    Body: Peacock herl
    Rib: Small copper or gold wire
    Thorax: Peacock Ice Dubbing
    Hackle: Hungarian Partridge

  • 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

  • Doug McKnight: Crimp

    RECIPE:

    Hook: Std. Saltwater #2-6
    Thread: UTC 140 color to suit
    Weight: Lead or bead chain eyes to suit
    Eyes: glass bead on #16 mono, dipped in epoxy
    Tail: craft fur, spanflex, krystal flash
    Body: sparkle yarn, colors to suit
    Wing: craft fur, krystal flash
    Legs: spanflex
    Weed guard: 12...

  • Boots Allen: Quad Bunny

    RECIPE:

    Hook: Mustad 34011, Size 1/0.
    Thread: Black 3/0 Flat Wax Nylon
    Bead: Tungsten Cone and Bead Combo
    Underbody: Olive Magnum Zonker Strip
    Overbody: Black Magnum Zonker Strip.
    Lateral Line: Barred Red Zonker Strip
    Collar: Peacock Herl

  • Kieran Frye: KC's Craney Fly

    RECIPE:

    Hook: Mustad dryfly hook, sizes 10-12
    Thread: Black 8/0 Uni thread
    Body: Moose body hair tied on a needle
    Wing/Post: The butts from the end of the extended body tied on the hook, then lifted upright like a wing or parachute post.
    Hackle/Legs: 8-10 moose body hairs divided equally o...

  • Dan Delekta: Delektable Boneyard

    RECIPE:

    Hook: Gamakatsu #SL11-3H in sizes #2, #4, #6, #8
    Thread: Pink 3/0 Uni-thread
    Eyes: For sizes #6 and #8 size small silver bead chain eyes; size #4 Medium Silver bead chain eyes; size #2 Real Eyes plus 5/32” Nickel/Red. All eyes to be super glued to Hook Shank.
    Tail: Six strands of Kr...

  • Bob Jacklin: Western March Brown

    RECIPE:

    Hook: 2x long Nymph
    Thread: 3/0 Rusty Brown
    Tail: 3 tails, Pheasant Tail
    Body: Australian Opossum Dubbing
    Ribbing: Med. Brown Vinyl Rib
    Thorax: Australian Opossum Dubbing
    Wing Case: Brown Turkey Tail over which is placed Brown Body Stretch
    Legs: Partridge Breast Feather
    Head: A...

  • Chris Williams: CW's CDC & Foam Green Drake Emerger

    RECIPE:

    Hook: TMC 2488 #12 or Partridge Klinkhammer #14
    Thread: UTC 70 olive
    Tail: March Brown antron dubbing shuck
    Body: Underbody of Olive Superfine Dubbing, and overbody of Blue-Wing Olive turkey biot tied with a furled body
    Thorax: Olive Superfine Dubbing with a translucent grey Razorf...

  • Wayne Luallen: CDC Emerger

    RECIPE:

    Hook: Daiichi 1260, #14-16 or Daiichi 1130, #16-20
    Thread: Danville’s Flymaster 6/0
    Tail: Zelon or Microzelon
    Abdomen: Ringneck or Golden Pheasant tail feather barbs
    Thorax: Dubbing blend
    Wing: CDC, Type #2 feather
    Head: Dubbed Whip Finish

  • Dave Bloom: Bloom's Black And Gold

    RECIPE:

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    Hook: Alec Jackson Spey (Gold) #3-#7
    Thread: 6/0 Black
    Tail: Hot Red or Hot Orange Golden Pheasant Crest
    Body: Black SLF with small oval gold tinsel rib
    Wing: Orange Artic Fox under Golden Pheasant Rump

  • Boots Allen: My My Shrimp

    RECIPE:

    Hook: Dai-Riki 135, Size 8-12
    Thread: Clear, fine monochord
    Eyes: Black dumbbell eyes, size to match hook
    Antennae: Pearlescent Silli Legs
    Body: Pearl Diamond Braid
    Hackle: White
    Shellback: White or tan Scud Skin
    Ribbing: Fine black wire

  • James Warren: The Gurgler

    RECIPE:

    Hook: Stainless Steel 1/0
    Thread: Gray 3/0
    Tail: Equal parts white and gray Ice Fur or similar product (ep fibers, fishhair, ect). Tie in with darker color in the dorsal position.
    Body: Pearl Cactus chenille or similar. Webby grizzly hackle palmered up body, longest hackle to the fr...

  • Josh Stanish: Chubby Chernobyl

    RECIPE:

    Hook: 3x long nymph or streamer hook. # 4-10
    Thread: 140 Denier UTC thread, color to match body
    Tail: 6-10 strands of Krystal Flash
    Dubbing: Amber Super Bright dubbing
    Overbody: Tan 2mm foam
    Wings: White Gator Hair or Poly Yarn
    Legs: Pumpkin Sili Legs or Flex Floss

  • Clark "Cheech" Pierce: Grumpy Frumpy

    RECIPE:

    Hook: TMC 100 #14 (or 8-20)
    Thread: Red 70 denier
    Tail: Fly Tyer's Dungeon shuck yarn (brown)
    Body: Yellow floss
    Humps: Rainy's evazote foam (camel)
    Band: Red thread
    Hackle: Brown saddle hackle
    Wing: White poly yarn
    Legs: White small round rubber marked with sharpie

  • Kieran Frye: KC's Shaggy Caddis

    RECIPE:

    Hook: Mustad dryfly hook, sizes 10-18
    Thread: 6/0 or 8/0 Uni, color to match the natural
    Body/Wing Looped dubbed deerhair, color to match the natural
    Hackle Whiting Grizzly, natural or dyed to wing color

  • James Warren: Tasty Toad

    RECIPE:

    Hook: Stainless Steel, Size 2
    Thread: Chartreuse 6/0
    Eyes: Lead eyes, zap a gapped to hook
    Tail: Tan marabou tips, grizzly hackle tips, 2 – 4 strands tan midge flash per side on tail
    Body: Chartreuse Ice Fur

  • Dandy Reiner: Pink Lady

    RECIPE:

    Hook: Dia-Riki #320, #12,14, 15
    Thread: Uni-Thread, Tan 8/0
    Tail: Coq De Leon Tailing Pack
    Body: Turkey Biot, Grey Olive
    Thorax: Superfine Dubbing, Adams Grey
    Hackle: Grizzly Cape
    Post: Ploypropelene Floating Yarn, White

  • James Warren: Gotcha

    RECIPE:
    Hook: Any stainless saltwater hook, size 8 – 2 to match conditions
    Thread: 6/0 pink
    Eyes: Dumbbell eyes to match water depth. Tie pattern blind (no eyes), or with different size eyes to match the conditions you are fishing.
    Tail: n/a although original pattern calls for a tail of unrav...

  • Doug McKnight: Home Invader

    RECIPE:

    Hook: Tiemco 700 #1/0-8
    Thread: White Flat waxed Nylon, White UTC140 for smaller sizes
    Eyes/weight: Lead wire, painted dumbell eyes
    Body: White Marabou, White Fox Tail
    Flash: Silver Flashabou, UV Herring Back Krystal Flash, Black Flashabou
    Sides: Badger Rooster Neck Hackles
    Cemen...