Ross Special

Ross Special

Jamie Caddick

Hook - Single salmon, size 2-6

Thread - Black

Tag - Fine oval silver tinsel

Tail - Golden pheasant crest

Rib - Oval silver tinsel

Body - Red wool

Throat - Yellow hackle fibers

Wing - Pine or fox squirrel tail

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Ron’s Radar

Ron’s Radar

Ron Hillier 

Hook - Single salmon, size 2-6

Thread - Black

Tag - Oval gold tinsel

Tail - Blue hackle fibers

Body - Chinese red uni stretch

Wing - Moose hair

Throat - Blue over yellow hackle fibers

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Roger's Fancy

Roger's Fancy

Hook - Single salmon, size 2-6

Thread - Black

Tag - Oval silver tinsel

Tip - Yellow or fluorescent green floss or uni-stretch

Tail - Peacock sword fibers

Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel

Body - Green Highlander floss

Throat - Dyed green over dyed yellow hackle fibers

Wing - Badger guard hairs or gray fox

Cheeks - Jungle cock (optionl)

Author's Note

NOTE: Perhaps this is the first time you've heard of this salmon fly? Remember this name, because this fly will undoubtedly become a firm favorite on Quebec's salmon rivers. This fly is truly Quebecois; it originated on the Sainte-Anne River in Sainte-Anne-des-Monts in 1973. Its creator is none other than Shirley E. Woods.

Shirley is a world-renowned salmon fisherman who has fished countless salmon rivers both in Canada and abroad. The Roger's Fancy fly originated from the fact that guides on the Sainte-Anne River insisted that Shirley use salmon flies where green was the predominant color.

Shirley's imagination produced Roger's Fancy (this name was given in honor of her friend, Major General Roger Rowley)

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Rockin' Ray

Rockin' Ray

Hook - Mustad 3906, 3399 or equivalent

Thread - Wine

Tag - Flat gold tinsel

Tail - Yellow hackle fibers

Ribbing - Oval gold tinsel

Body - Green body braid

Throat - Yellow hackle fibers

Wing - Moose body hairs

Modern Atlantic Salmon Flies - Paul C Marriner

Robidoux

Robidoux 

Claude Bédard 

Hook - Single salmon, size 2-6

Thread - Gray

Tag - Oval silver tinsel

Tail - Yellow hen hackle fibers

Rib - Silver holographic tinsel

Body - Yellow stretch nylon

Wing - Grey squirrel tail

Collar - Grizzly hen

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Rio Grand King Trude

Rio Grand King Trude

Hook - Single salmon, size 2-6

Thread - Black

Tag - Gold tinsel

Tail - Golden pheasant tippet

Body - Black chenille

Wing - White calf tail

Hackle - Brown

Salmon fly conversion from the standard trude style fly pattern.

Smurf

Smurf 

Hook – Single salmon, size 2-6
Thread - Black
Tag – Oval silver tinsel
Body - Rear 1/3 - fluorescent green floss
Rib: Oval silver tinsel over front body
Body – Front 2/3 - black wool
Throat - Yellow hackle fibers
Wing - Gray squirrel tail
Collar - Chartreuse chenille

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Smurf 

Hook – Single salmon, size 2-6
Thread - Red
Tag – Oval silver tinsel and fluorescent orange floss

*Tail - Golden pheasant crest

Butt - Black ostrich herl

Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel
Body – Purple floss

Underwing - Blue krystal flash
Wing - Dyed blue squirrel tail

Cheeks - Jungle cock
Collar - Purple hen hackle

As depicted in the book.

Modern Atlantic Salmon Flies - Paul C Marriner

*In the book mentioned above, the recipe calls for Golden pheasant crest while the photo depicts golden pheasant tippets.

Author's Note

A Bob Baker pattern created in 1987 with the collaboration of his daughter Kathy. Originally tied as a steelhead pattern. it has proven itself on Atlantic Salmon rivers. There is a "bug" pattern by the same name, but Bob's pattern precedes it.

Also mentioned in the above book is a "Smurf Bug" with a red fluorescent tag, dyed blue body (deer hair) and blue or brown hackle, similar to the photo below

Robert Special

Robert Special

Hook - Single salmon, size 2-6

Thread - Black

Tail - Fluorescent orange calf tail

Body - Alternating bands of black and white wool yarn

Wing - Calf tail

Collar - Brown hen hackle

Author's Note

The inventor of this fly, Robert Veilleux de la Beauce, uses it for trolling in the ZEC Jarro and he assures us that it only takes large trout.

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Ruelland (Special)

Ruelland (Special)

Leo Ruelland Originator

Hook - Single salmon, size 4-8

Thread - Black

Tag - Oval Silver tinsel & chartreuse uni stretch

Tail - Green bucktail or hackle fibers

Ribbing - Fine black chenille or floss

Body - Flat green tinsel

Throat - 2 grizzly hackle tips slanting back

Wing - Black squirrel tail

Collar - Grizzly hackle

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River Copper Philip

River Copper Philip

Atlantic Salmon

Hook - Single salmon, size 2-6

Thread - Black

Body - Copper braid*

Throat - Red calftail, sparse

Wing - Orange calftail, sparse

* I didnt have copper braid. I substituted with copper holographic tinsel. Embossed copper tinsel could also have been used.

Fly Patterns of Canada - Paul C Marriner