March Flies From the Vise

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Buckskin Soft Hackle

Hook - Mustad 3906, 3906B or equivalent

Thread - Black

Ribbing - Gold wire

Body - Narrow strip of buckskin

Hackle - Brown hen

Buckskin Soft Hackle

Hook - Mustad 3906, 3906B or equivalent

Thread - Black

Ribbing - Gold wire

Body - Narrow strip of buckskin

Hackle - Hungarian partridge

Buckskin Soft Hackle

Hook - Mustad 3906, 3906B or equivalent

Thread - Black

Ribbing - Gold wire

Body - Narrow strip of buckskin colored with marker

Hackle - Black hen

Note: Any legal game bird feathers can be used for the hackle. Use orange thread for a hot spot. Try different colors of buckskin/chamois. Use different color wire. Be creative. Experiment!

[RickZieger 0]

Here are flies tied with boa yarn on the left and Premier Eyelash yarn on the right.  side view and from the back .

I have caught thousands of fish on the boa yarn flies.

 

Rick

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Rick, back in the late 60’s, early 70’s, when me and my brothers were young kids, we would catch trout after trout after trout on hooks where we tied a piece of yarn on by way of a simple overhand knot and a split shot crimped on to make a jig. This is why I have no thoughts or beliefs about the difficulty of catching wild/native trout. Sometimes simple is all that is needed. 

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Henderson

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White Moth

Ora Smith Fly Pattern

Hook - Mustad 3906, 3906B, 94840 or equivalent

Thread - Black

Butt - Orange floss

Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel

Body - White wool yarn

Throat - White hen hackle

Wing - White calf tail

Art of Angling Journal - Volume 2 Issue 1

[WWKimba 0]

A newly found design by Josephine Sedlecky-Borsum! (By me at least.)

Woodchuck Caddis - This is NOT the original name of this pattern - that, to date, has been lost to time.  The female version of this fly is tied with a yellow floss tag.  Though Jo never tied this over-all generalized caddis pattern on a size 18 hook, it has been found, at this size, to work as a nice imitation for a Chimara hatch.  The pattern was first tied back in the mid 50's.  It fishes best from April -> August, anytime their are dark insects on the water.

Hook - Mustad 94840, 12-16

Thread - black

Tail - woodchuck guard hairs

Body - black floss or dubbing

Wing - woodchuck guard hairs, tied trude to the back of the tail

Hackle - brown dry fly

[SilverCreek 0]

The Woodchuck caddis that I am familiar with is tied using only woodchuck. Woodchuck underfur is dubbed for the body and woodchuck hair is used for the wing. There is no tail.

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New Trier (Original recipe)

 

Hook – Mustad 3665A or equivalent

Thread – Black

Tag – Fine copper wire & yellow floss

Tail – Golden pheasant crest

Butt – Peacock herl

Body – First half silver coated copper wire; butted with peacock herl

Second half copper wire.

Throat – Dun hackle fibers

Wing – Mottled gray brown turkey

 

New Trier (Variation recipe)

 

Hook – Mustad 3665A or equivalent

Thread – Black

Tag – Fine copper wire & yellow floss

Tail – Golden pheasant crest

Butt – Peacock herl

Body – First half silver oval tinsel; butted with peacock herl

Second half - Copper oval tinsel.

Throat – Dun hackle fibers

Wing – Mottled brown turkey

 

Forgotten Flies - Schmookler and Sils

 

Tying note: I tied this fly per the photo in the book “Forgotten Flies”. Not all photos in the book match the tying recipe.

[flytire 0]

i tie woodchuck caddis a little differently

no right or wrong way to tie them

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Muddler

Been away from the vise for over 2 weeks so I started with something familiar. Missing a third light so the pics are a bit darker than usual.

hook - WFC Model 3
thread - Veevus 8/0 tan 
tail- Congo Hair Shiner Tan 
rib - small wire copper
body - Starburst dubbing tan
body hackle - ginger
shoulder - pheasant rump 
collar/head - pronghorn

Regards,
Scott

[WWKimba 0]

21 hours ago, flytire said:

i tie woodchuck caddis a little differently

no right or wrong way to tie them

Nice tie!  Do you know who originated this design?  Like a lot of caddis patterns, its beauty is in its simple construction.

Kim

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Here's a design by a very talented 12-year-old!

Maple Syrup - Designed by Holly Theriault (some sources erroneously credit this to Holly's father Alvin) of Staceyville, Maine to imitate the Hexagenia mayfly nymph.  This pattern has been modified with many tying variations - there are 15 variations sold on Alvin's fly site alone!  On this same site Alvin confirms that this was Holly's, not his, design.  One other thing, Holly had 8 years' tying experience when she came up with her design!

Hook - 3XL to up to 6XL streamer hook, 10-18

Thread - black, red, or tan

Tail - yellow calf tail, not too heavy

Body - beige or light tan chenille, tied from front to back of the hook shank and then wrapped to the eye (or double wrapped in simpler language!)

[niveker 0]

43 minutes ago, WWKimba said:

Do you know who originated this design?

I always assumed it was Eric Leiser, calling it the Chuck Caddis.  

Regardless of the original creator, I agree with both you and @flytire -

22 hours ago, flytire said:

no right or wrong way to tie them

 

46 minutes ago, WWKimba said:

its beauty is in its simple construction.

 

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14 minutes ago, niveker said:

I always assumed it was Eric Leiser, calling it the Chuck Caddis.  

Regardless of the original creator, I agree with both you and @flytire -

 

 

Plus, if you look at some of Jo's other patterns (the Brown Stone - NOT brown and NOT used to imitate a stonefly and her Lady Jo Caddis which was designed as a night fishing fly for Hex mayflies!) she did not always allow the names of her flies to be THAT descriptive.  As said, this fly was good when ANY dark colored flies were on the rise so that may explain why this caddis has a tail or maybe just a woodchuck shuck!  Only an educated guess from an uneducated man!

Kim