101 Favorite Dry Flies: History, Tying Tips, and Fishing Strategies
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Divided into four essential parts—Matching the Hatch, The Overlooked Flies, Important Terrestrials, and Attractive Patterns—this book covers each with thorough analysis. Included within are numerous images of materials and tying tools. Learn to master the classic patterns, but also discover the latest flies with suggested commercial fly-tying gear from Umpqua Feather Merchants or Rainy’s Flies. Detailed text is provided for imitative flies, containing explicit hatching information depending on the season and location.
In 101 Favorite Dry Flies, Klausmeyer teaches the fundamentals as well as innovative methods on how to properly excel in fishing. Fly-tying is a highly esteemed fisherman’s craft, but also an art form. Avid sport fisherman will treasure this book and gain an even more sense of in-depth knowledge.
David Klausmeyer
David Klausmeyer has been the editor in chief of Fly Tyer magazine for the past twenty years. He has written numerous books and articles about fly tying, including The Orvis Guide to Beginning Fly Tying. He now does blogs and webcasts about them as well. His tying techniques are well known among tiers. He resides in Steuben, Maine.
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101 Favorite Dry Flies - David Klausmeyer
CHAPTER ONE
Matching
the Hatch:
Mayflies,
Caddisflies,
and Stoneflies
1
Slow-water,
Blue-winged Olive
Hook: Standard dry-fly hook, sizes 20 to 16.
Thread: Olive 8/0.
Tail: Dark pardo Coq de Leon.
Body: Stripped peacock quill, dyed olive.
Thorax: Olive Superfine dubbing.
Wing post: White Hi-Vis polypropylene yarn.
Hackle: Grizzly.
THE SLOW-WATER, BLUE-WINGED OLIVE IS EXTREMELY productive in slow-water scenarios where the trout are ultra selective. The body is very slender, and when combined with a light-wire hook, this pattern is extremely buoyant.
The parachute-style hackle on the Slow-water, Blue-winged Olive makes the fly float on the surface with the body resting in the film like a real emerger. This pattern creates a realistic-looking silhouette on the water, which is necessary when fishing for very discerning trout in slower moving sections of a stream.
Feel free to swap other colors of yarn for the wing post. Hot pink and orange are easy to track on the water—even in failing light, and the fish do not seem to notice these bright colors.
2
Hovering Green Drake Emerger
Hook: Partridge Klinkhamer hook, size 10.
Thread: Brown 6/0.
Tail: Dingy olive marabou tips.
Abdomen: Dingy olive marabou.
Rib: Extra-fine copper wire or clear monofilament.
Thorax: Peacock herl.
Wing bud: Cul de canard.
Hackle: Grizzly, dyed tan, or Cree.
Indicator: Closed-cell foam.
AS AN AUTHOR, IT’S FUN TO SHARE SOME OF YOUR OWN patterns, and this is one of mine—well, sort of. I made several changes to the classic Quigley Cripple, so many, in fact, that most fly designers would claim it as an entirely new pattern. When I look at the Hovering Green Drake Emerger, however, I still see the basic form of Bob Quigley’s famous fly, so I think of it as more of a second or third cousin. It’s different, but there is no denying the family resemblance.
The tail and feathery abdomen, which hang down in the surface film, do an admirable job of imitating a beefy green drake or Hexagenia mayfly nymph. Counter-wrap the rib over the abdomen to protect the marabou fibers. The cul de canard wing bud, full-hackle collar, and foam indicator keep the head of the fly above the water like a real emerger.
Tying the Hovering Green Drake Emerger
1. Wrap a layer of thread on the end of the hook shank. Strip the fibers from the base of a marabou feather. Tie the bare stem to the hook using two or three loose thread wraps.
2. Pull the marabou to form the tail of the fly. Tighten the thread to lock the marabou to the top of the hook. Tie on a piece of extra-fine copper wire.
3. Twist the marabou into a tight rope. Wrap the twisted feather up the hook to create the abdomen of the fly. Tie off and cut the surplus marabou. Counter-wrap the wire (in the opposite direction of the marabou) to make the rib. Tie off and cut the remaining piece of wire.
4. Tie on a small piece of cul de canard for the wing bud. Strip the excess fibers from the base of a hackle. Tie the feather to the hook.
5. Tie on three or four strands of peacock herl. Wrap the herl on the hook to make the thorax. Tie off and clip the surplus herl. Tie a piece of closed-cell foam to the top of the fly.
6. Wrap the hackle collar. Tie off and cut the remaining hackle tip. Tie off and snip the thread.
3
Carol’s Caddis
Hook: Regular dry-fly hook, sizes 20 to 12.
Thread: Size 6/0, color to match the body.
Body: Any dry-fly dubbing, color to match the caddisflies on your local waters.
Underwing: Light gray mallard-flank fibers, slightly longer than the hook shank.
Wing: Natural snowshoe hare foot fur.
JAY FISHY
FULLUM DESIGNED CAROL’S CADDIS TO HONOR his favorite angling companion, his wife. (Carol Fullum was once a production fly tier, so Fishy’s flies have to be spot-on to get her approval.)
In describing the origins of this pattern, Fishy said, I was replenishing my inventory of caddisflies when Carol took a minute to see what was coming off my vise. She retrieved her vest and checked out her supply of caddisflies. Carol said she had an idea for a simple, durable pattern that she could see on the water. While she hasn’t tied flies in many years, she definitely knows what she wants in her patterns.
They have used Carol’s Caddis to catch trout in a dozen states. The materials always stay the same, but they change colors and sizes to match the local caddisflies. They recommend sprinkling a little powdered flotant on the fly before fishing.
4
Dark Visible Dun
Hook: Regular dry-fly hook, sizes 16 to 12.
Thread: Black 8/0.
Tail: Deer body hair.
Body: Stripped peacock quill.
Wing: White calf tail.
FLY-TIER KEITH FULSHER IS ONE OF THE LEGENDS OF FLY fishing of the last half of the twentieth century. His Thunder Creek series of streamers, designed to imitate dace, minnows, and other forms of common baitfish, was his answer to the dry-fly purists’ mantra of match the hatch.
While well known for his unique family of streamers, Keith is always eager to fish dry flies when the trout start rising, and I was so pleased to receive a package containing two of his original surface patterns.
Keith wrote about the Dark Visible Dun for the June/July 1962 edition of The Sportsman, which was the publication of the Southern New York Fish & Game Association. (Keith included a copy of that article in the package.)
In Keith’s cover letter, he said, "Most of my dry-fly fishing was with standard patterns, but sometimes I changed them a bit. For instance,