Dave's Cricket
We're rapidly approaching terrestrial season, and a good cricket pattern should be in every fly box. The editor vividly remembers a day on the Boulder River in Montana when grasshopper patterns only resulted in refusals, but the rainbows took crickets.

Hook: Dry fly, 2X long, size 8 to 14 Thread: Black
Tail: Dyed black deer body hair
Body: Dark claret yarn including a loop over the tail
Hackle: Black, palmered over the yarn and trimmed short
Wing: Dyed black deer body hair over which is a section of black wing quill, coated with vinyl cement and tied tent style
Legs: Black hackle stems with the barbs trimmed, with knotted joints Head/collar: Dyed black deer body hair, spun and trimmed.

Pattern and photo can be found in Flies For Trout, by Dick Stewart and Farrow Allen.

Fly Tied By: Bart Fitzpatrick

Quill Gordon
Hook: Dry fly, # 12-14
Thread: Primrose yellow
Tail: Medium blue dun hackle barbs
Body: Stripped or bleached peacock eye quill
Wing: Woodduck flank
Hackle: Medium blue dun
Thanks to Farrow Allen and Dick Stewart for the recipe.

Blue Quill
Hook: Dry Fly, #14 - 18
Thread: Gray
Tail: Medium blue dun hackle barbs
Body: Stripped peacock quill
Wing: Dark gray wing quill segments
Hackle: Medium blue dun
Thanks to Farrow Allen and Dick Stewart for the recipe.

March Brown
Hook: Dry Fly Hook, 10-12
Thread: Orange 6/0 or 8/0
Tail: Ginger Hackle Barbs
Body: Light fawn colored fox fur
Wing: Heavily marked woodduck flank with brownish cast
Hackle: Dark grizzly and dark ginger grizzly variant
Thanks to Farrow Allen and Dick Stewart for the recipe.

Partridge and Yellow
Hook: Mustad 3906, #10-16
Thread: Yellow 6/0 or 8/0
Body: Yellow Silk Floss
Thorax: Mixed fur from hare's face (optional)
Hackle: Brown or gray partridge
Thanks to Dave Hughes for the recipe.

Olive Wooly Soft Body Nymph Hook: Short shank, upturned eye, #10-20
Thread: Olive
Tail: Mixed grizzly and red hackle barbs
Body: Olive chenille
Hackle: Grizzly
Note: Extended body, tied on a section of supple fly line that's been roughened with sandpaper for better adhesion.
Thanks to Farrow Allen for the recipe.


The Sheep Fly
Hook: Mustad 9671 or 79580
Thread: Black Uni-thread
Tail: Muskrat back with guard hairs Body: Olive fur
Hackle: Soft brown rooster or hen hackle
Wings: Dark cast grizzly hackle tips
Wire: .015 to .030
Recipe comes from Don and Kevin Howell. Full tying instructions in their book, "Tying and Fishing Southern Appalachian Trout Flies."

Muddler Minnow
Hook: Streamer, 3X - 4X long, 2 - 16
Thread: Brown or Gray
Tail: Mottled turkey wing quill sections
Body: Flat gold tinsel
Wing: Gray squirrel tail over which are turkey wing quill sections
Collar: Natural deer body hair
Head: Natural deer body hair, spun and clipped
Thanks to Farrow Allen and Dick Stewart for the recipe.

Moosetail Adams
Hook: Dry Fly, #10-20
Thread: Gray or black
Tail: A few strands of moose body hair, divided to each side
Body: Gray muskrat fur
Wing: Grizzly hackle tips
Hackle: Mixed grizzly and brown
Thanks to Farrow Allen and Dick Stewart for the recipe.

Prince Nymph
Hook: Mustad 9671, 8-14
Thread: Black 6/0 or 8/0
Tail: Red-brown goose biots
Rib: Fine Gold Tinsel
Body: Peacock Herl
Legs: Brown Hackle, Collar Style Wing: 2 White Goose Biots
Head: Gold Bead (Optional)

Serendipity Midge
Hook: Tiemco 2487 #18-26
Thread: Olive
Body: Olive Z-lon twisted into a rope and wrapped tightly
Head: Natural deer body hair, spun and trimmed to form a collar on top and small head in front.

See Flies for Trout, by Dick Stewart and Farrow Allen for a photograph of the Serendipity Midge

Fly Tied By: Chris Fichtel

Yellow Stimulator
Hook:   TMC 200R 2x or 3x long dry fly or "hopper hook," #6-10
Thread: Orange, 8/0
Tail: Natural elk or deer body hair
Abdomen: Yellow fur Body
Rear Hackle: Brown
Rib: Fine gold wire (optional)
Wing: Elk topped with calf tail
Thorax: Yellow Floss 
Head:  Orange thread      Front Hackle: Grizzly or Badger


Yellow Sally
Hook: Dry fly, long shank, #14-18 Thread: Primrose yellow 6/0 or 8/0 Tail: Pale chartreuse-yellow deer body hair
Body: Sulphur dubbing
Rib: Creamy white, trimmed on top
Wing: Pale gray duck wing quill section, coated with vinyl cement, tied flat over body
Hackle: Creamy White, trimmed on top
Thanks to Farrow Allen and Dick Stewart for the recipe.

Fly Tied By: Bart Fitzpatrick

Adams Variant
Hook: Dry fly, #10-16
Thread: Gray
Tail: Golden pheasant tippet
Rear hackle: Grizzly
Midbody: Yellow ostrich herl
Wing: Grizzly hackle tips (Picture Cree Wing)
Hackle: Grizzly
Invented by Fred Hall and It's, "yaller".
One of Dwight and Don Howell's "Western North Carolina Fly Selection."

Tennessee Wulff
Hook: Dry Fly, #12-16
Thread: Black
Tail: Dark deer hair
Body: Peacock herl and chartreuse floss
Wing: Upright clump of white calftail
Hackle: Dark brown
Recipe is Don R. Howell's.

Yellow Palmer
Hook: Mustad 94840, 14-16
Thread: Yellow or primrose, 6/0 or 8/0
Tail: Brown and grizzly
Body: Medium Yellow
Hackle: Brown and Grizzly
Roger Lowe's recipe

Yellow May
Hook: Dry fly, #12-18
Thread: Primrose yellow or cream, 6/0 or 8/0
Tail: Light ginger
Body: Light yellow spun fur
Wing: Wood duck flank
Hackle: Light Ginger
Recipe courtesy of Don R. Howell.


Crowe Beetle
Hook: Dry fly, long shank, #12-20
Thread: Black 6/0 or 8/0
Body: Black thread wrapped over black deer body hair. Dubbing may be applied to the body if a wide silhouette is desired.
Shellback: Black deer body hair
Legs: Three black hairs from shellback, pulled out on each side.
Head: Balance of deer hair cut square over eye of hook

Eastern Yellow Stonefly
Hook: Nymph, 3X long, size 6-10
Thread: Yellow
Underbody: Strips of lead wire
Tail: Two woodduck flank barbs
Abdomen: A mixture of yellow, amber and cream fur
Rib: Golden yellow floss and gold wire
Thorax: Same as abdomen, but heavier and picked out
Legs: Ginger grizzly trimmed on the top and bottom
Wingcase Mottled turkey wing quill, well and head: lacquered and folded forward and back.
Antennae: Mottled turkey wing biots

Fly Tied By: Bart Fitzpatrick

Caddis (One Material Variant)

Hook: 14 

Body: Zylon

Body: Zylon 

 Fly Tied By: Jeff Curtis

Thunderhead

Tail: Moose

Body: Fine and Dry Grey Dubbing 

Wing:  White calf body

Hackle: Brown

Hook:  Temco 100 Size 10 -20.

March Brown
(Art Flick version)
Hook: Dry Fly, #10 or 12
Thread: Orange
Tail: Ginger hackle barb
Body: Light fawn colored fox fur
Wing: Heavily marked woodduck flank with a brownish cast
Hackle: Dark grizzly and dark ginger grizzly variant
Thanks to Farrow Allen and Dick Stewart for the recipe.

Early Nelson
Hook: Mustad Dry Fly, 94840, #12-18
Thread: Black 6/0 or 8/0
Tail: Moose Body or Black Deer Hair
Rib: Fine Gold Tinsel
Body: Peacock Herl
Wing: Grizzly (Hen or hackle tips)
Hackle: Brown and Grizzly Mixed
This Southern Appalachian pattern, often attributed to the late Cap Weise. This is Don Howell's recipe with a few modifications.

Blue Quill
Hook: Dry Fly, #14-18
Thread: Gray 6/0 or 8/0
Tail: Medium blue dun hackle barbs Body: Stripped peacock quill
Wing: Dark gray wing quill segments
Hackle: Medium blue dun
Thanks to Farrow Allen and Dick Stewart for the recipe.

Fly Tied By: Bart Fitzpatrick

Female Adams
Hook: Dry fly, #10-16
Thread: Gray or black
Tail: Mixed grizzly and brown
Egg Sac: Sulphur yellow fur
Body: Gray muskrat fur
Wing: Grizzly hackle tips
Hackle: Mixed grizzly and brown
Thanks to Farrow Allen and Dick Stewart for the recipe.

Parachute Light Cahill
Hook: Dry Fly, #12-20
Thread: Primrose yellow or cream Tail: Ginger or cream
Body: Creamy yellow dubbing
Wing: Upright clump of white calftail, calf body hair, or similar Hackle: Ginger or cream, tied parachute style
Thanks to Farrow Allen and Dick Stewart for the recipe.

Light Hendrickson
Hook: Mustad 94840, 12-14
Thread: Primrose 6/0 or 8/0
Tail: Medium Blue Dun
Body: Pinkish Urine-Burned Red Fox Belly Fur (or ordinary fawn fox belly fur)
Wing: Woodduck flank
Hackle: Medium Blue Dun
Recipe is the Art Flick version, provided courtesy of Farrow Allen and Dick Stewart.

Parachute Adams
Hook: Mustad 94840, #10-18 Thread: Black or gray 6/0 or 8/0
Tail: Mixed grizzly and brown
Body: Gray muskrat fur
Post: White calftail
Hackle: Grizzly and brown, wound horizontally around the post
Original Adams tied around 1920 by Leonard Halladay of Mayfield, Michigan and named for Charles F. Adams who fished it on the Boardman River.

Blue Wing Olive
Hook: Dry fly, #12-24
Thread: Olive
Tail: Dun or lt blue dun hackle barbs
Body: Olive fur
Wing: Dun or lt blue dun hackle tips
Hackle: Dun or lt blue dun
Recipe courtesy of Farrow Allen.

Orange Palmer
Hook: Dry fly, #10-16
Thread: Orange or black
Tail: Brown or brown & grizzly mixed or woodchuck guard hair
Body: Rusty orange
Hackle: Mixed grizzly and brown

October Sedge
Hook: Mustad 94831, #14-16 Thread: Orange 6/0 or 8/0
Body: Latex, colored w/ orange pantone pen, overlapped
Wing: Light orange deer hair, downwing style
Hackle: Dark Ginger
Thanks to Roger Lowe for the recipe.

Hazel Creek
Hook: Dry fly, #12-16
Thread: Gray or black
Tail: Golden pheasant
Body: Cream fur
Wing: White hackle tips
Hackle: Mixed grizzly and brown
Thanks to Roger Lowe for the recipe.

Smoky Mountain Forktail
Hook: Dry fly, #12-16
Thread: Black or gray, 6/0 or 8/0 Tail: Gray goose biot
Body: Red fox fur
Wing: Gray primary duck wing feather
Hackle: Mixed grizzly and brown
Recipe courtesy of Don R. Howell.

Missouri River Special
Hook: Dry fly, size 16-18
Thread: Brown 6/0
Body: Tan or olive dubbing
Wing: Mottled turkey or grouse tail, coated with vinyl cement and V-notched, tied tent shape
Hackle: 2-4 wraps of brown

The Missouri River Special, also called the King's River Caddis, can be seen in Flies for Trout, by Dick Stewart and Farrow Allen.