Information about Winged flies
Traditional winged dry flies use the surface tension of water to float. The fly will ride on the hackle and tail. The wing creates a silhouette taking on the appearance of a natural insect.
Adams
Availablity:
Flybox Code:804
Hook Sizes: 14, 16, 18, 20
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
Ray Bergman created this fly in the 1920's for his home waters in Michigan and is probably USAs' most popular pattern. It is a must in any trout flybox on both sides of the atlantic.
A good match for several American and European Upwinged flies, very acceptable likeness of an Iron Blue.
Adams
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2011
Hook Sizes: 10, 12, 14, 16
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The Adams has become one of the hottest favourites in flyboxes on both sides of the Atlantic.
Ray Bergman created this fly in the 1920's for his home waters in Michigan and is probably USAs' most popular pattern.
A good match for several American and European Upwinged flies, very acceptable likeness of an Iron Blue.
Black Gnat
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2532
Hook Sizes: 14, 16, 12, 18
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The Black Gnat is an imitation of a wide number of naturals that are very similar to us fishermen
In spring, and again in autumn, black gnats can be seen swarming near the surface. Although the spring and autumn flies are not the same species, they are so similar that for angling purposes we can treat them as one.
On rivers and streams, black gnat clouds are frequently densest over the slower sections. Mating pairs are particularly vulnerable in blustery weather and fall to the surface, where the trout are only to pleased to consume them.
Blue Wing Olive
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2534
Hook Sizes: 14, 16, 18
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
BWOs are small, the surface of smooth water is a barrier to them, and many are trapped just below the surface or must struggle to break through the water's surface tension.
At this point they are highly vulnerable to trout, and they are frequently taken just subsurface.
Elk Winged Caddis Tan
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2345
Hook Sizes: 14, 16, 12
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
This is a admirable variant of the Elk Hair Caddis, which is a true classic. This proven favourite has caught countless trout.
The popularity of this pattern is enhanced due to the robustness of the elk hair and its buoyancy, as well as the way the palmered hackle body makes it ride high on the water like a real fluttering caddis.
The fly floats well in rough water; and does work credibly well on slower water.
Olive Dun
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1013
Hook Sizes: 14, 16, 18
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The 'natural' is on the water right through the season, making the Olive Dun an very important part of the trouts' staple diet.
So, don't be caught without this pattern, in all its various shades of olive/colour. in your flybox.
Pale Evening Dun
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1754
Hook Sizes: 14, 16, 18
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
Very useful general dun pattern, superb on late summer evenings when the naturals, pale duns, are often on the water.
White Moth
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2348
Hook Sizes: 16, 14
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
There are frequently heavy hatches at night and trout feed selectively on them. Using this pattern makes for exhilarating fishing!
Blue Dun
Availablity:
Flybox Code:826
Hook Sizes: 14, 16
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
This fly is reputed to be one of Charles Cotton's ( 1630-1687), or at the very least, had an important place in his flybox.
This ancient pattern has been a consistantly successful pattern when tied to horsehair in 1600s' or to todays fluorocarbon tippets.
If you have only a few patterns of flies to choose from, be certain and to bring the Blue Dun for your early season fishing.
Greenwells Glory
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2539
Hook Sizes: 14, 16, 18
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
This "must have" pattern was James Wright fist tied this fly in 1854 for Cannon William Greenwell, this is another fly not to be without.
Try this fly when the olives are about.
Greenwell's Glory
Availablity:
Flybox Code:828
Hook Sizes: 12, 14
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Very possibly the world's best known fly pattern, it was first devised by Canon Greenwell 150 years ago for the River Tweed.
The simple and effective design has proved time and time again of its excellence; from the start of the season to the close it seems to represent an 'olive' the trout believes he recognizes.
This fly is justly a permanent resident in flyboxes world wide.
Hawthorne Fly
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1042
Hook Sizes: 10, 12
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The hawthorne fly is to the average fly fisherman, is a large gnat with two dangling hairy legs, and its link with anglers dated way back to the days of Izzak Walton .
Roger's pattern is a fair imitation and works well, when the trout are in the mood.
March Brown
Availablity:
Flybox Code:892
Hook Sizes: 12, 14
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One of the earliest dressings for the March Brown was by Chetham, calling it the Moorish Brown, this was in 1681 and the basic pattern has remained the same for the last 350 years - The quarry are still as eager today as in Chethem and Cotton's day.
The 'true' march brown is born of the rough and tumble waters, Only the very early season fishermen will witness the spectacular hatches usually around midday.
Adult Blue Damsel
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Flybox Code:2182
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The Adult Blue Damsel is an exciting pattern to fish when the naturals are skipping over the water.
Cast around the margins next to the reeds and bullrushes.
Alder
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Flybox Code:955
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Of the 'Alder', here is what is written in FAVORITE FLIES AND THEIR
HISTORIES, by Mary M. Orvis (1896):
"The original of this fly is hatched from the egg laid by the mature insect upon the leaves of trees or bushes bordering the water, preferably alder-bushes. The natural fly was first imitated in Great Britain, where it was much used, early in the season, as an evening fly. In this country it seems effectual throughout the summer, and wherever the 'trout lepyth'."
Obviously this fly does not owe its birthright to American tiers, however it was and is used so successfully in Catskill waters as to be considered 'native'.
Alder
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Flybox Code:827
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The Alder this an old pattern dating back over 300 years,.
Charles Kingsley wrote of his ' beloved alder fly' in his Chalk Stream Studies and it is still a favourite in flybox today.
The Adler, tie as shown, floats high on the water and is good interpretation of the real insect.
To be fished near overhanging trees, bushes and reeds, where alder flies often fall in the water.
Can act as a caddis substitute as well.
American March Brown
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Flybox Code:958
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The American march Brown was devised for use in our more tumbling rivers, stimulating better the Stenonema Vicarium, an early mottled wing mayfly more robust than its English cousins. Preston jennings originated this pattern, with Art Flick describing the fly tied here, differing only in the use of the more heavily barred wood duck flank used for the wings.
Information by Dave Brandt
Apple Green
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Flybox Code:983
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Good and interesting killing trout pattern.
It is used throughout Europes with success and has been during all of the last century up to today.
Artful Dodger
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Flybox Code:936
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An old attractor dry pattern, a good alternative to stimulate the trout when they are bulging and tailing.
Baigent's Brown
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Flybox Code:980
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A good and proven general purpose pattern that Dr Baigent of Northallerton devised in or around 1900.
Stands proud on the water , good footprints and is silhouetted enticingly
Barm Fly
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Flybox Code:986
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The Barm fly was once known, in the distant past, as the "Knobbler"
Francis Francis the editor of 'The Field' in the mid 1800's though very highly of this fly and wrote of its "deadliness on streams".
Imitative of large sedges and small moths
Beaver Tan
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Flybox Code:2948
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This pattern is a general dry allrounder, it often seems to represent an important part of the staple diet that floats past the trout throughout the season
Beaverkill
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Flybox Code:954
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A popular and successful pattern in America , Canada and will work it's magic in the UK.
It is reputed that Judge Fitzwilliam Fitch, around 1825, named the american fly 'Beaverkill'. The suggested British original was probably a sedge pattern with landrail wings.
Black Delta Caddis
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Flybox Code:1492
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Larry created the Black Delta Caddis to represent the spent natural 'Delta Caddis'. It can be tied in various sizes and colours - So - "match the hatch" or be as near as you can.
Black Gnat
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Flybox Code:807
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The black gnat has had a home in fly boxes for well over 100 years.
It is annually a proven success right through the season.
The naturals land on the water either after mating or are blown there, so the trout young and old are used to seeing this 'pattern' float by!
Black Quill
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Flybox Code:988
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The Black Quill was first created in southern Ireland as an imitation of a black gnats.
Blue Dun
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2533
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In America the Blue Dun very successfully represents many gray mayflies; it is an old standby tied in "Catskill" style, upright wings with sparse hackle. All are still some of the best patterns around for matching the hatch or just attracting fish.
On British and European streams and rivers, the classic Blue Dun represents the Olive Upright and has done for over a century.
If you have only a few patterns of flies to choose from, be certain and to bring the Blue Dun for your early season fishing.
Blue Dun Winged (variant)
Availablity:
Flybox Code:926
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The origins of this Blue Dun variant is reputed to be one of Charles Cotton's ( 1630-1687), or at the very least had an important place in his flybox.
Important early season pattern and in various size will work as an imitation for all of these mayflies on all but the most wary trout
Blue Quill
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Flybox Code:805
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The Blue Quill is a good dry pattern that can be used throughout the season.
It is special effective when Baetis Olives and Pale Wateries are on the waters.
Upright and what an excellent job it has done over the numerous seasons and on a variety of waters
Blue Winged Olive
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1757
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"Standard pattern , has never failed me" - Ivor Simpson
Blue Winged Olive
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Flybox Code:1950
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The popular Blue Winged Olive is well know to trout in the UK and in America. In England its hatches can start as early as May and continue throughout he season until September.
Brown Long Legged Gnat
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Flybox Code:899
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Every stillwater or sluggish water is the home of the gnat, and as 'buzzers / chironmidae' can often be the basic food of trout. So when the emerge on summers evenings, often in large hatches, a plague to the fisherman but interesting and known food to the trout.
This pattern has it's own place in flyboxes
Catskill
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Flybox Code:948
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The'Catskill' is seen both as a dry fly and as a wet fly. At certain times of the year, usually more into the summer, it is a very good fish catcher.
Gary LaFontaine called the classic Catskill and other similar patterns the tiptoe flies, because when they are properly tied, only the hackles and the tail touch the water.
Coachman
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Flybox Code:795
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A good dusk pattern and an excellent night fly, both on river and stillwaters.
According to fly fishing folk lore the creater of the 'Coachman' was Tom Bosworth reputedly coachman to George 1V, William 1V and Queen Victoria .
The fly he created lives on in flyboxes all over the world as one of the most successful and reliable patterns on both sides of the atlantic.
It was created in the 1830's as a wet fly but soon proved its' effectiveness when used as a dry fly
Coffin Fly
Availablity:
Flybox Code:965
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This pattern was originated bt Walt Dette and Ted Townsend to represent the spinner stage of the Green Drake which we have come to know as the 'Coffin Fly'.
Information by Alan Podell
Cross special
Availablity:
Flybox Code:966
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This pattern is a Quill Gordon with a Cahill body.
When asked what made this so 'special', he (Cross) gave his usual straight answer, "I just have the material, it takes fish as well as the Quill Gordon or Hendrickson, and I've got my name on it."
Rube Cross to Larry Koller
Information by Allan Podell
Dark Cahill
Availablity:
Flybox Code:951
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This pattern is credited to Dan Cahill of Port Jervis, NY . Many of the early dry flies, prior to about 1920's used wood duck flank fibres for tails including the Cahill. It may have been because American fly tiers began having difficulty obtaining these feathers and/or the influence of Reuben Cross and other Catskill style tiers, but made from good stiff hackle barbs became the norm.
Dark Olive Quill
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Flybox Code:1015
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No dry flybox can be complete without the inclusion of Halford's Dark Olive Quill. The natural is on the water throughout the season and the trout know it as a standard food source. The size and colour shade can and does vary so must the fly you present.
Dark Sedge
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Flybox Code:897
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The dark sedge is effective during July through to October.
This is a pattern that is superb from dusk to dark, it also does work in daytime with success
Harry Powell the creator of the fly was a barber from the Usk valley, a well know fly tier and fly fisherman in the 1920's.
Delaware Adams
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Flybox Code:950
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"There are times,however, when changes, under special situations, are an improvement. Such is the case with the Delaware Adams, a pattern designed by Walt for art lee to use when fishing the Delaware River below Hancock, NY." (Leiser, The Dettes). In his book, E Leiser writes that the method of construction the body, palmered and reinforcing it, has been used by the Dette's for close to 60years. They used it when constructing similar flies like the Katterman, Henryville Special and the Bi-Visible.
Information by Allan Podell
Driffield Dun
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Flybox Code:930
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This fly was named after the water on which it was first intended to be fished; the 'Driffield Beck' a chalk stream in the north of England.
Local's use this pattern when the pale wateries are around.
Handy for the traveling fly fisherman's flybox, those pale wateries certainly are widely spread !
Edmead
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Flybox Code:1051
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Simple and useful pattern, whose origins back one hundred years and became popular in Scandinavia.
Female Adams
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Flybox Code:1949
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The only difference from the original Adams is the yellow butt that represents the egg sack - some trout seem to prefer it on the day
Flat Water Midge
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Flybox Code:1979
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Ginger March Brown
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Flybox Code:1058
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Very good variation of the March Brown that works particularly well in the autumn.
Ginger Quill
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Flybox Code:1759
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An old established pattern that fishes as well today as during the victorian times. The quill body gives away the age of when the pattern was first devised ; creating a life like quality when attempting to imitating the segmented body of a natural.
Ginger Quill
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Flybox Code:794
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The Ginger Quill is a classic and it belongs to the older dry-fly convention which will probably never lose there claim to esteem. Good -hot-weather fly. Alfred Ronalds. 1836
Still as effective after two hundred years, floating dry fly that is an imitation of pale wateries and light olive duns.
Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear
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Flybox Code:797
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The Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear has truly earnt its place in flyboxes all over the world as one of the most successful patterns of all time.
Frederic M Halford was responsible for the addition of the wings on the original GRHE in 1880's, and who said' "It has always been my theory that it is a fair representation of a dun in the act of disentangling itself from the nymphal shuck".
Gordon Quill
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Flybox Code:883
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Theodore's first flies were tied from instuctions and materials sent by F M Halford, he soon began to imitate insects on his home waters. The first and most famous were the Gordon and the Gordon Quill;
They are outstanding flies that have been taking trout for over 100 years. Their ability to represent various naturals is often helped by slightly varying the dressings to the naturals on the water, this Theodore did!
Gordon Quill (UK)
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Flybox Code:888
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An excellent high riding fly.
Theodore's first flies were tied from instuctions and materials sent by F M Halford, he soon began to imitate insects on his home waters. The first and most famous were the Gordon and the Gordon Quill;
They are outstanding flies that have been taking trout for over 100 years. Their ability to represent various naturals is often helped by slightly varying the dressings to the naturals on the water, this Theodore did!
Governor
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Flybox Code:931
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T C Hofland created the original Governor as an imitation of a beetle in the 1830's for home waters in the south of England, there are variation that have become standards on both sides of the atlantic.
Works well on hot summers days.
Very good when fishing near reeds, overgrown banks and overhanging trees.
Grant's Murderer
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Flybox Code:1037
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Herbert Grant was a tackle dealer in Ludlow, and he created the 'Grant's Murderer' for use on his favourite waters, the Shropshire streams. It's now used universally with very satisfactory results.
Gravel Bed
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Flybox Code:927
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"This fly kills well in May; weather bright, clear water, and when no other fly will raise fish. Some prefer the brightest outside (scapular) feather of a woodcock's wing; and the same feather to make it buzz. The silk for the body should be most repulsive, ashen, liver hue you can find".
Aldfred Ronalds Fly-Fishers Entomology 1836
As good advise today as over 160 years ago - one for the flybox
Gravel Bed (variant)
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Flybox Code:945
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A good variant of Alfred Ronalds original 'Gravel Bed' - that still works well after it's concept 160 years ago.
Green Caddis
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Flybox Code:1490
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Fished as a sedge over here, a good variaton.
Grizzle Dun
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Flybox Code:1756
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"Superb general Dun pattern anywhere; very good on riffle water" - Ivor Simpson
Hardy's Favourite
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Flybox Code:934
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A fancy dry fly created by J J Hardy, late of the House of Hardy well known tackle shop and thriving business.
Original fished dry or wet; best as a dry in May and June for trout.
Proven on Scottish lochs and stillwaters as a good point fly
Hare's Ear
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Flybox Code:1040
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The Hare's Ear is a 'Classic'. It has had its reserved place in flyboxes of anglers for decades and decades. This pattern is used from the begining of the season to the close, from the rough and tumble streams to the quiet stillwaters with equal success.
Hawthorne
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Flybox Code:1820
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This tying of the Hawthorne is a good representative of the natural and should be in your box when fishing in May
Hoflands Fancy
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Flybox Code:940
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Established it's place in Flyboxes as a reliable pattern on most waters, specially when the sun begins to set.
TC Hofland ( The British Angler's Manual) created in the 1830's his 'Fancy' as an imitation of small spinners but it soon became known as good general purpose fly.
Houghton Ruby
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Flybox Code:1473
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The Houghton Ruby is an admirable imitation of the female iron blue spinner, a prime example of William Lunn's art in dressing a fly that stands the true test of time.
Anglers who have the oppurtuntity to cast a dry line on a chalkstream over the last 80 years are very seldom without this fly in there flybox.
Iron Blue Dun
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Flybox Code:1483
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The Iron Blue Dun is a standard winged classic that has a permanent home in most UK dry flyfishers flyboxes.
It is representative of the male dun and the hatches occur throughout the season. Surprisingly often on poor weather days when there are no other dun to be seen.
Iron Blue Dun
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Flybox Code:1485
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The Iron Blue Dun is a standard winged classic that has a permanent home in most UK dry flyfishers flyboxes.
It is representative of the male dun and the hatches occur throughout the season. Surprisingly often on poor weather days when there are no other dun to be seen.
John Storey
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Flybox Code:882
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John Storey was a riverkeeper on the Ryedale Anglers' Club in N. Yorkshire in ther mid 1800's. "The original wet fly dressing had an underbody of fawn wool, to better absorbwater, and mallard wing fibers sloped back over the peacock herl covered body. The fly has undergone a few changes down the years; for example at the turn of the century the dry fly had even reached this quiet little backwater on the Rye, and so the Storeys brought it into line by deleting the wool underbody, using a stiff cock hackle and setting the wings upright. It worked very well in its new guise."
"A further change in the design came about in the mid1930's when the fly started to sport a wing that had a very pronounced forward slope over the eye... This information from Authur Storey" grandson of John Storey and present(1980) riverkeeper.
John Storey (with tail)
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Flybox Code:886
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"The original wet fly dressing had an underbody of fawn wool, to better absorbwater, and mallard wing fibers sloped back over the peacock herl covered body. The fly has undergone a few changes down the years; for example at the turn of the century the dry fly had even reached this quiet little backwater on the Rye, and so the Storeys brought it into line by deleting the wool underbody, using a stiff cock hackle and setting the wings upright. It worked very well in its new guise."
"A further change in the design came about in the mid 1930s' when the fly started to sport a wing that had a very pronounced forward slope over the eye... This information from Authur Storey" grandson of John Storey and present(1980) riverkeeper.
A tail has been added, this will help to give extra floatation.
Kakahi Queen
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Flybox Code:1769
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Classic New Zealand stream pattern,this wonderful dry fly imitates the adult colobuiscus one of our larger mayflies which is distigushed by the yellow colouring on the wings. It's most active from Nov - March.
Light Cahill
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Flybox Code:831
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Although Daniel Cahill was the originator of the 'Cahill pattern' for his local waters and it has proven to be a splendidly productive dry fly ever since thoughout the world.
One for the flybox where ever you are or travelling too!
Light Cahill
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Flybox Code:952
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Theodore Gordon altered the British Silver Sedge wet fly to better represent the mayflies he encountered and to fish as a dry fly.
Perhaps by using stiffer hackle and/or adding a tail ?
Information by Allan Podell
Light Hendrickson
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Flybox Code:957
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While some sources suggest that the Hendrickson, originally devised eighty-some years ago by Roy Steenrod and named for his friend and patron, A E Hendrickson, was intended to simulate Ephemerella Invaria, this lighter version, developed by Art Flick in the 1940's serves as the flyfishers imitation of Ephemerella Subvaria.
Information by Dave Brandt
Little Black Caddis
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Flybox Code:1491
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The Little Black Caddis is a popular imitation of many naturals thoughout the United States.
Lock's Fancy
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Flybox Code:1055
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John Lock of Andover, Hampshire, created this pattern.
Without doubt a successful tried and tested imitation of pale wateries.
March Brown
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Flybox Code:2537
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The 'true' march brown is born of the rough and tumble waters.
Only the very early season fishermen will witness the spectacular hatches usually around midday.
March Brown Female
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Flybox Code:1057
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The March Brown Female must be one of the leading choices in any fly fishermans flybox and over the centuries this pattern has killed trout on rivers big and small, from pond to lakes - specially during the early part of the season.
March Brown Male
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Flybox Code:1056
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The March Brown has been a staunch pattern in flyboxes from Cotton in the 1680's, Bowlker, 1747 added the hare's ear dubbing with yellow silk rib.
It is an early season favourite , but can and still does work its magic throughout the season.
Marsedge
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Flybox Code:1475
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The Marsedge is an attractive imitation of a sedge and works its magic on both sides of the Atlantic, on rivers and stillwaters alike.
Mole Fly
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Flybox Code:1019
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It is reputed that the 'Mole Fly' got its name originally from the River Mole, Surrey, South England but has over the last 70 years become far more popular as a killing pattern in Europe, specially France.
It is without doubt a fly that sits well on the water and attracts its fair share of trout.
Mosquito
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Flybox Code:885
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This was originally an Americian pattern but has proved it self to be such an enticing fly.
Today Trout on rivers and stillwaters on both sides of the Atlantic are attracted to this proven pattern.
Neversink
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Flybox Code:947
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This fly is mentioned in 'Favorite Flies and Their Histories' by Mary Orvis Marbury (1892).
"The Neversink was made for and named after one of the famous trio of rivers in southern New York, the Beaverkill, the Willowemoc and the Neversink. We cannot learn with certainty who first invented this fly, now known for many years to fishermen frequenting this celebrated trout stream."
Information by Bill Leuszler
No-Hackle Dun
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Flybox Code:1772
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The No-Hackle Dun was devised so that the body and the wings created a tasty silhouette for the trout looking up.
Oak Fly
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Flybox Code:1012
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Excellent early season dry fly, often igorned or fogotten by the dry fly fisherman but not by the trout who are allured by this pattern although the natural is rarely seen on the water.
Oakden's Claret
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Flybox Code:898
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Roger Woolly, the author of 'Modern Trout Flies' (1932), honed his skills on the streams of Derbyshire
He tied flies for over 60 years for pleasure and professionally, and never used a vice.
Olive Dun
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Flybox Code:1014
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The 'Olive Dun' is one of the most important standard dry flies every angler should have in his flybox. Why ? Because the trout know it so well and feed on them most of the season .
Their tone and hue of olive varies throughout the season, usually best to have a few different sizes and shades in the flybox
Orange Fly
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Flybox Code:1021
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A hundred and fifty year old pattern that is rarely used today but but for those who do find it excellent specially on those tumberling streams and broken waters.
Orange Governor
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Flybox Code:1036
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T C Hofland created this pattern in the 1830's and it is still killing trout today.
Works its specially magic on hot summers days.
Orange Quill
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Flybox Code:874
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G E M Skues is often given credit for orange quill, it is suggested that he in fact popularized this splended pattern by his discovery of its effectiveness as an unlikely imitation of the blue winged olive.
When days are warm and mild with little or no wind the dun will escape the shoreline vegetation and hatch yet again into the orange spinner where dry flies like the Orange quill will imitate them well
Origami Winged Olive
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Flybox Code:1394
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The attractive Origami Winged Olive and has proved to be a wonderful I innovative Olive Dun imitation.
The original idea of the winging style was developed by Jens Pilgard
Pale Dun
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Flybox Code:1753
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A good pattern to have in your flybox for Pale Duns', Spurwings ect., small sizes best - Ivor Simpson
Pale Morning No Hackle Dun
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Flybox Code:2068
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The Pale Morning No Hackle Dun creates a lovely footprint as it sit its body directly on the surface film
Pale Watery Dun
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Flybox Code:1755
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"All round great fly for pale wateries and small spurwings" - Ivor Simpson
Pink Lady
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Flybox Code:953
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The LaBranche family originally used a 'King of the Waters' dry fly which had a red body.
However, the red dye washed out quickly and the fly, now pink, worked better. Thereafter, George LaBranche tied it with pink floss and I believe, the 'Lady' part was named for his wife.
Information by Allan Podell
Pink Lady
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Flybox Code:1072
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An attractive, tried and tested dry pattern that is a standard in American flyboxes for close to a hundred years
It has been used , usually in larger sizes, as a night fly when fishing for lough trout in Ireland. Where the dry fly is twitched and dragged over the surface of the water.
Pope's Nondescript
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Flybox Code:937
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W H Pope of Dorchester, south England originally named this pattern 'Pope's Green Nondescript'
This small fly was created to be fished when the trout need to be stimulated into action; case in point is to distract them from their frustrating practices of 'tailing'.
Professor
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Flybox Code:881
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Professor John Wilson created this stillwater pattern around 1850's, it has proven it's worth in the flyboxes of fly fishermen ever since; not only on stillwaters but on flowing waters, even in larger size as a lure for Seatrout.
Quill Gordon
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Flybox Code:962
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Gordon received a set of dry flies from Frederick Halford. However , he says in his writings that he deires to duplicate the insects he saw on the waters he fished so he combined the techniques of halford with his own observations.
It's believed tha T Gordon meant for this fly to represnet the Iron Fraudator or E.pleuralis and according to Herman Christian, who fished alongside him, Gordon altered this fly, light or dark and size for different hatches. The original Quill Gordon had a single clump wing of wood duck flank which was in front of the hackle and leaning forward over the hooks' eye.
Information by Larry Duckwall
Rat Faced Irrisistible
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Flybox Code:1741
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Joe Messinger created the Irrisistible series of fast water floaters whose body of deer hair makes them practically unsinkable. Using Harry Darbee's 'Rat Faced MacDougall's hackle and wing, Joe has created the Rat Faced Irrisistible a popular variant.
Rat Faced McDougall
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Flybox Code:946
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According to Harry Darbee, he and his wife Elsie tied several of this style of fly in combinations of colour shades. They were unnamed patterns but were placed in the first catalogue (1934?) they published. "They (the flies) were later to become known, thanks to Judge Wiggens of Middletown, NY, as the Beaverkill Bastard, owing to their somewhat questionable origin fom the union of a deer hair bassbug and a large trout fly." (H Darbee) One evening while Harry and a friend, Percy Jennings, were tying these flies, a young female visitor asked the name of the fly. Not wanting to offend her sensitivities, she was asked to name it and she said, "I think it's a Rat-Faced McDougall."
Thus its name.
Information by Allan Podell
Red Quill
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Flybox Code:793
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The Red Quill Classic belongs to the older dry-fly convention which will probably never lose there charm and ability to fool fish.
The Red Quill shown has a gold tag which makes it very attractive both to Trout and Grayling.
Red Quill
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Flybox Code:1758
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Very popular on the chalk streams of Southern England. Made famous by Halford who referred to the the Red Quill as the 'sheet anchor' when dry fly fishing on a new water.
Skinnum
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Flybox Code:1067
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A popular American pattern in the 1970's
Slate Olive Thorax Dun
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Flybox Code:2199
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The Slate Olive Thorax Dun creates a perfect silouette.
Since its creation on Mike Lawson vice, it has tiggered enthusiastic takes from thousands of trout feeding happily on duns.
Taff's Black Gnat
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Flybox Code:1396
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An inivative dressing to imitate gnats. The wings will catch and reflect various interesting colours, these will as an exciting trigger.
Two Feather Fly
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Flybox Code:963
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I a conversation with A J McClane, Harry Darbee said he developed this style of fly because, It all began when late Terrell Moore asked me to make him a dry pattern that weighed no more than a natural mayfly."
His (Darbees') "unique method of fly tying required only a single feather for body, wings and tail." After manipulating the fibres of that feather to tie in those parts, "Darbee selects a feather for hackle and ties it in."
Information from an article by A Y McClane (F&S, Oct., 1960)
Welshman's Button
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Flybox Code:880
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The Welshman's button Winged Caperer, which is often shortened to the Caperer.
It was originally intended for the gentle chalk streams of southern England, but its reputation has earnt its place on the rough and tumble fast flowing rivers to stillwaters. Whatever the the name it is referred to by Fishermen, it is a very successful Sedge pattern.
As we know sedges are found on most waters, as most flyboxes should have a place for this proven fly.
White Miller
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Flybox Code:1470
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The White Miller was originally created to imitate an type of American caddis that is a night time emerger.
We are are certain it can also be taken for moths and is great for visability.
Wickham's Fancy
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Flybox Code:799
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The Wickham was originally intended as a dry fly for the clear chalk streams of southern England.
It has proven successful since the 1880's when it was first created but on much more varied waters.
Often the only fly trout will look at when they are smutting.
The wet Wickham's fancy is a good general purpose still water fly
Winged Yellow Boy
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Flybox Code:894
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William Lunn devised this admirable fly in 1910's, and still fishes well not only on the chalk streams of southern England for where it was originally intended.
He was the keeper on the River Test, a position he held for 45 years from 1887 to 1932.
No dry fly fisherman's flybox can be complete without this outstanding pattern.
Wonder Wing Stone
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Flybox Code:774
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Beautiful and well balanced fly. Attractive to both the trout and the angler.
Yellow May Dun
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Flybox Code:1760
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Never be without this pattern on late summer evenings . May and June is when the naturals are on the water.
Hatches may be sparse but a blank must follow without this fly - Ivor Simpson.