Skagit Cutthroat

Skagit Cutthroat

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Red

Tail - Scarlet and orange hackle fibers, mixed

Butt - Fluorescent orange chenille

Body - Oval silver tinsel

Inner wing - White bucktail

Outer wing - Scarlet goose quill

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Bob Wilson Streamer

Bob Wilson Streamer

hook - Single Salmon

Thread - Yellow

Tail - Golden pheasant crest

Body - Copper tinsel or copper wire

Hackle - Black tied on as a beard

Wings - 2 matching sections of barred woodduck

*May also be tied on 3X, 4X long streamer hooks

Steelhead Fly Tying Manual - Light & Humphrey

Stanley Streamer

Stanley Streamer

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Black or orange

Tail - Orange hackle fibers

Ribbing - Oval gold tinsel over rear half of body only

Body - Rear half'- black wool, Front half - Olive chenille

Hackle - Orange

Wing - White bucktail or calf tail

Cheeks - Jungle fowl (optional)

Steelhead Fly Tying Manual - Light & Humphrey

X-Long

X-Long

Hooks - Single salmon

Thread - Black

Tag - Fluorescent green yarn

Rear Body - Orange chenille

Center Wing - Dyed red gray squirrel tail tied short over the body

Front Body - Red chenille

Hackle - Dyed red guinea fowl tied on as a collar and tied back

Author's Note

I originated this pattern and named it after my good friend, Ned Long, of North Shore, Lake Tahoe, California.

Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art - Terry Hellekson

Quinsam Hackle

Quinsam Hackle

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Black

Tag - Yellow floss

Body - Black wool ribbed with gold tinsel. Palmer the front half with yellow hackle

Hackle - Claret or red

Author's Note

Brigadier General Noel Money

Sometimes called the "Shrimp Fly"

Steelhead Fly Fishing and Flies - Trey Combs

Purple Spackle

Purple Spackle

Hook – single salmon

Thread - Black

Tail - Pearl Krystal Flash

Body - Purple chenille

Rib - Embossed gold tinsel

Wing - Pearl Krystal Flash

Collar – Purple hackle

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Purple Joe

Purple Joe

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Black

Tail - Red hackle fibers

Body - Hot orange uni yarn

Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel, chenille only

Thorax - Purple chenille

Wing - 2 badger hackles (may be tied splayed outward)

Hackle - Badger

Fish Flies - Volume II - Terry Hellekson

Prichard's Western Angler

Prichard's Western Angler

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Black

Tail - Dyed red calftail 

Body - Black chenille

Rib - Oval gold tinsel

Throat - Dyed purple hackle fibers

Wing - White polar bear or substitute (i used white bucktail)

Topping - Small bunch of dyed orange calftail, shorter than the wing

This variation of the Skunk (which see), was originated by Wayne Orzel for the Kalama River in Washington

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Princeton Tiger

Princeton Tiger

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Black

Tag - Flat silver tinsel

Tail - Red hackle

Ribbing - Flat silver tinsel

Body - Nlack wool

Hackle - Black

Wing - Orange bucktail over strands of pearl krystal flash

Author's Note

This fly was introduced and popularized by Eddie Ward as he fished the Clearwater River back in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. He was a graduate of Princeton so he used the college colors, orange and black and the athletic teams’, Tigers, to name the fly. It proved to be a very successful fly to lure big steelhead on the Clearwater.

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