Sunday, November 30, 2025

Montana Brassie



Montana Brassie

Hook - Up eye salmon style

Thread - Color to match

Body - Your favorite colored wire

Wing - White or color to match the wire

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McKenzie Sapphire #1 & #2

McKenzie Sapphire #1

Mike Brooks

Steelhead

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Black

Tag - Flat silver tinsel & yellow floss

Tail - Blue hackle fibers

Ribbing - Flat silver tinsel

Body - Black seals fur or substitute

Hackle - Blue

Wing - Underwing of mixed red, yellow, light blue and green bucktail; soft white hair over

Cheeks - Jungle cock (optional)


McKenzie Sapphire #2

Mike Brooks

Steelhead

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Black

Tag - Flat silver tinsel & yellow floss

Tail - Blue hackle fibers

Ribbing - Flat silver tinsel

Body - Black seals fur or substitute

Hackle - Blue

Wing - Underwing of mixed red, yellow, light blue and green bucktail; black squirrel tail over

Cheeks - Jungle cock (optional)

The Complete Illustrated Directory of Salmon Flies - Chris Mann

Maxwell Purple

Maxwell Purple 

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Black

Tip - Flat silver tinsel

Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel 

Body - Dubbed with purple lamb's wool

Wing - Purple neck hackles tied Matuka-style

Hackle - Purple tied on as a collar and tied back

Author's Note

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

Marrietta

Marrietta 

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Orange

Tip - Flat silver tinsel

Tail - Scarlet red hackle barbs

Body - Fluorescent fire orange chenille

Hackle - Fluorescent orange tied on as a collar and tied back and down

Wing - Natural brown bucktail tied over the body

Author's Note

Don Redfern originated this pattern during the mid-1950s for British Columbia waters.

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

McGee


McGee

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Yellow

Tail - Brown hackle fibers

Butt - Yellow chenille

Body - Peacock herl twisted around tying thread into a herl chenille

Wing - Black guinea feather fibers

Hackle - Brown hen

Head - Yellow chenille

Fly Tyer Pattern Bible (Volume 6 - Issue 2)