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Hare’s Lug and Plover

Spider pattern - North Country soft hackle

Hook - Light wire hook - here Partridge SUD2 size 12
Thread - Yellow silk - here YLI
Body - hare's lug - this is the fur from between the ears on a hare...

Diablo Rojo

This is a straight forward futsu kebari that early tenkara adopter Rob L. ties. He does so in red or green because he always felt those were the “fishiest” body colors.

Killer Bugger

This is a Chris Stewart pattern combining two great patterns - Frank Sawyer’s Killer Bug and a Woolly Bugger.

Plumeaux Fly - Feather Duster

Green Drake fly from France. In “French Fishing Flies” by JP Pequegnot he mentions a style of flies called 'Plumeaux' or feather dusters where a long mallard duck breast feather is supported by a roos...

Killer Kebari

This is Chris Stewart aka Tenkarabum’s pattern adding a hackle to Frank Sawyer’s famous Killer Bug.

Peute Wet Fly

Great pattern attributed to Henri Bresson in Jean-Paul Pequegnot’s book ‘French Fishing Flies’.

Adams Dry Fly - Original Halladay Version

This video is my attempt at the original Adams pattern according to a few seemingly reliable sources.

Waterhen Bloa

This is my tying of the Waterhen Bloa. This is one of the most famous Spider patterns. North Country Spider - Yorkshire Spider - Soft Hackle wet.

Light Cahill Wet Fly

Light Cahill Hook: wet fly size 14 Tail: wood duck Body: red fox underfur Wing: wood duck Hackle: hen ginger Thread: tan or ginger to match

Leisenring Pale Watery Dun Wingless

Leisenring’s #10 favorite pattern.

Hook - wet fly hook size 12, 13, 14.
Silk - primrose yellow
Hackle - honey dun hen (I used light ginger)
Tail - 2 or 3 pale honey dun cock fibers (light ging...

M&M

There are many moose mane body flies out there. When I first started tying I was intrigued by using two hairs to make a segmented body and at the time I was mostly into Tenkara so I did the "famous" ...

Roxey’s Fox Squirrel Streamer - Roxey Roach

I learned of this fly from a post by Eric Austin on Fly Anglers Online http://www.flyanglersonline.com/articles

Wilson’s Trout Fly

Wilson’s Trout Fly

Tying thread - black
Hook - wet fly hook - I used Mustad 3906 size 10.
Tag or Tip - red floss
Body - peacock herl
Rib - red thread
Hackle - ginger
Wing - single green teal ...

Hardy’s Favorite - Variation - Wet Fly

Hardy's Favorite is attributed to JJ Hardy in the 1870s. The recipe according to J. Edson Leonard in his book Flies is as follows.

Winter Brown - Reverse Hackle - Sakasa

This is the Winter Brown as I learned from a Robert Smith Video where the pattern is credited to James Whitaker on a list of his Wharfdale patterns.

Greenwell’s Glory

The Greenwell's Glory is a very old pattern. Its origin story dates to 1854 in Durham County England where William Greenwell came up empty handed after a day of fishing but captured a dun that he bel...

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