Great beach fly. All the salmon and trout love this fly.
A hackle tip variant of the Green Butt Purple.
Tag - Holographic Green Tinsel (or green silk)
Tail - Golden Pheasant Tippet over Topping, both red
Body - Bright Purple Silk Floss
Rib - Medium Oval Silver (wound counter to the body hackle, locking it in)
Body Hackle - Natural Heron and Bright Purple Silver Pheasant, wound together from 2nd turn of rib. (Can sub Blue Eared Pheasant for Heron.
Collar - Teal
Wing - Four white hackle tips, tented slightly.
Cheeks - Jungle Cock
Head - Black.
Great beach and river fly for when you need a little more weight
Fantastic for salmon off the beach and rivers.
Usually tied as a mayfly nymph but I’ve only tied it larger as a quick tie stonefly nymph.
Great beach casting fly as the chain bead eyes will take a beating off the rocks. It also whistles as it's zipping past your head
Simple bug using a heavy wire hook. Great during high water on Vancouver Island rivers when the fish are a few feet from shore
Top water fly with exceptional results in salt water esturaries. It isn't a popper, but is very sporatic when stripping. The head is foam and body hollow which holds an air pocket until your next cast. As far as I can tell there isn't another fly like this and I haven't come up with a name for it, so open for suggestions
That's a beauty!
A Clouser varient that I always have in my box. You can tie this with any colour, but find predominantly pink has the best results.
A Steelhead varient of Vince Aubin's Dolly Dynamite
I've landed a Halibut on that pattern
Nice searching pattern and a quick tie. Can use lots of different things for the tail. I just use dubbing folded over and it floats well enough.
Another great searching chironomid. Easy on the materials and effective. Lots of things work for the rib and UV is optional.
Different colour variation of the Winters Hope.
That'll get em