Trout and Steelhead Patterns

Trout and Steelhead Patterns

Cold water fly patterns for trout and steelhead

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Trout and Steelhead Patterns
  • Jerry Criss: Bleeding Minnow

    RECIPE:

    Hook: 200r or 2X streamer hook #4 to # 10
    Thread: 8/0 rusty dun to olive "UNI"
    Tail: Grey Artic Fox Tail
    Underbody: Fine foil lead with the rest of the Tailing material wrapped forward
    Body: Mylar ribbon material to match your water
    Throat: White to grey artic fox tail
    Wing: Grey...

  • Clark "Cheech" Pierce: Petite Sirloin Stone

    RECIPE:

    Hook: TMC 200R #4
    Thread: Uni 6/0
    Body: Rainy's X-Flies Tube Bodiz stonefly orange
    Underwing: Tan CDC
    Wing: Brown deer hair
    Head: Burnt orange deer hair
    Legs: Fly Tyers Dungeon baby legs alive (tan) colored with brown and orange marker
    Indicator: 2mm foam

  • Pete Boll: Eumer Leech

  • Matt Wilhelm: Grey Drake Cripple

    RECIPE:

    Thread: 6/0 Gray
    Hook: Dai Riki #320 dry fly hook sz 12
    Tail: Gray Z-lon
    Body: Gray goose biot
    Thorax: Gray dubbing
    Hackle: Gray rooster saddle
    Wing: Elk

  • Boots Allen: Lantham Crayfish

    RECIPE:

    Hook: Alec Jackson style 1/0 salmon hook (example- TMC 7999)
    Thread: UTC 140, Burnt Orange
    Claws: Ringneck pheasant neck feathers (those coming off the neck saddles directly posterior of white ringneck feathers)
    Appendages: Four strands of copper Flashabou, plus two strands of peaco...

  • Matt Wilhelm: SOH Streamer

    RECIPE:

    Thread: 3/0 to match
    Hook: Dai Riki #710 streamer hook
    Tail: Olive marabou
    Body: Verigated Chenille
    Wing: Rabbit super strip
    Legs: Black rubber bands
    Hackle: Hen hackle
    Eyes: Medium barbell eyes

  • Dan Delekta: Delektable Mega Prince

    RECIPE:

    Hook: Streamer #6, #8, #10
    Thread: Black 6/0 Danville
    Bead: Copper
    Tail: Dyed Grizzly Brown Marabou
    Body: Peacock Herl
    Rib: Copper Wire
    Weight: .030 tin along side of hook shank
    Legs: Silly barred pumpkin/green
    Antennae: White Goose Biot
    Hackle: Dark Brown Speckled Hen Back
    H...

  • Boots Allen: Booty's Mahogany Emerger

    RECIPE:

    Hook: Standard dry fly or emerger hook, size 10 to 16
    Thread: Black 6/0 or 8/0
    Shuck: Brown ostrich herl
    Abdomen: Brown camel dubbing
    Ribbing: Fine 5 grain gold or copper wire
    Thorax: .5mm closed cell razor foam, tan
    Hackle: Brown Rooster
    Wing: Dark Gray EP Fibers

  • Josh Stanish: Biggies Sculpin

    RECIPE:

    Hook: TMC #300 #2-8
    Thread: UTC 140 Olive
    Tail: Olive Zonker Strip
    Body: Olive Polar Chenile
    Peck Fins: Grizzly Olive filoplume
    Collar: Olive Brown Deer hair
    Head: Olive Brown Deer hair

  • Al Ritt: Ritt's Fighting Crayfish

    RECIPE:

    Hook: Dai-Riki 700B
    Thread: UTC 70 Denier
    Eyes: Black Round Rubber
    Body: Whitlock Crawdub SLF Dubbing
    Legs: Saddle Hackle palmered through body and brushed out Dubbing
    Weight: Lead Dumbell Eyes
    Antennea: Crystal Flash
    Carapace: Thin Skin
    Claws: Foam Claws Mounted on Round Rubbe...

  • Jerry Criss: Partridge and Green

    Recipe:
    Hook: #18-#10 standard wet fly hook
    Thread: Rust Dun
    Body: Green Superlon – Beading cord or silk
    Floss: Persahair
    Thorax: Peacock Herl
    Hackle: Partridge

  • Howard Cole: Yellow Sally

    SD
    RECIPE:

    Hook: Tiemco 5212BL #12-#16
    Thread: Uni-Thread 8/0 Tan
    Undertail: Z-lon Amber
    Tail: Wood Duck Flank Fibers
    Abdomen: 1/3 Dubbing Flourescent Orange 2/3 Dubbing Creamy Yellow
    Wing: Z-lon Dun
    Thorax: Dubbing Creamy Yellow
    Hackle: CDC Light Dun
    Wing Case: Ethafoam Thin

  • Willy Self: CDC Caddis Emerger

    RECIPE:

    Hook : size 16 true 10 scud style
    Thread : 3/0 mono cord or choice
    Body : CDC dubbing
    Rib : French Tinsel
    Under Wing : Krinkle Mirror flash
    Hackle : Sharptail Grouse
    Head : Black dubbing

  • Doug McKnight: Sasquatch

    SD
    RECIPE:

    Hook: 4x-6x long Streamer hook
    Thread: UTC 140
    Eyes: Lead Dumbbell eyes
    Tail: Brown and Burnt Umber Marabou
    Legs: Tan speckled rubber legs
    Body: Woodchuck Hair spun into a loop of Med. gauge wire

  • Josh Stanish: Ug bug Spruce Moth

    RECIPE:

    Hook: TMC 100 # 10-14
    Thread: 140 Denier Brown UTC
    Body: Tan 2 mm Foam
    Underwing: Tan Poly Yarn
    Overwing: Cinnamon Para Post
    Legs: Speckled Tan/Brown Centipede Legs
    Collar: Hare’s Ice Dubbing Hares Ear
    Bullet Head: Tan 2mm Foam

  • Boots Allen: Tara-X

    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....

  • Charles Barton: Universal Spey

    Recipe:
    Hook: Daiichi salmon fly hooks size 3/0 down to size 10
    Thread: Clear Mono
    Eyes: Barbell or bead chain (he uses Wapsi "Real Eyes")
    Tag: Holographic Tinsel wound down the hook bend and back up
    Body: Pine squirrel zonker palmered to just behind the eye.
    Collar: Whiting Spey feather, a...

  • Jerry Criss: BWO Pullover

    RECIPE:

    Hook: 103 Ba #17
    Thread: 8/0 Rusty Dun or Grey
    Tail: Micro-fibits dun or Coq de Leon
    Body: Fine Dry fly Light grey to Olive
    Rib: Lt cahill tying thread or rusty dun
    Hackle: Grizzly or Dunn tyer
    Hair stacker or pullover style

  • Al Ritt: ARF Tung-Syn PT

    RECIPE:
    Hook: Tiemco 3769 sz 12 through 18
    Bead: Tungsten Copper
    Tail: Krystal Flash, Root Beer over Pearl
    Abdomen: Glitter D Rib, Root Beer
    Wing Case: Mirage Tinsel
    Thorax: Hare’e Ice, Peacock

  • Josh Stanish: Rubber Leg 20incher

    RECIPE:

    Hook: TMC 2302 #6-14
    Thread: 6/0 Black Uni thread
    Bead: 5/32" Black Bead
    Tail: Dark Brown Goose Biots
    Rib: Medium Red Wire
    Abdomen: Peacock Herl
    Underwing: Large Mirage Tinsel
    Wingcase: Mottled Oak Thin Skin
    Dubbing: Dark Hare's Ear
    Legs: White Living Rubber Legs and Speckled ...

  • Josh Stanish: Turk's Power Ant

    RECIPE:

    Hook: TMC 101 # 12-16
    Thread: 70 Denier Black UTC
    Dubbing: Mahogony Brown Superfine
    Wing: White CDC
    Parachute Post: Pink Para Post
    Legs: Medium Round Rubber
    Hackle: Brown
    Over body: Black 2mm foam

  • Rocky Maley: Gold Purpy

    RECIPE:

    Hook: 3/0 Allen Jackson eyed hook
    Thread: Black
    Body: Purple Berlin Wool
    Rib: Gold Tinsel
    Hackle: Bronze Tip Rooster Coke
    Wing: Bronze mallard

  • Dean Riner: Wilted Spinach

  • 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.