Silver Monkey

Silver Monkey

Hook - Single salmon, size 2-6

Thread -  Black

Tag - Oval silver tinsel

Tail -  Golden pheasant crest

Butt -  Black ostrich herl

Rib - Oval silver tinsel

Body - Flat silver tinsel

Throat - Grizzly hackle barbs

Wing - Under wing is a strand of yellow under a strand of green floss topped with deer hair

Cheeks -Optional short JC nails, I omitted them on this fly

"Tying Atlantic Salmon and Spey Flies, - Silver Monkey, Fly Angler's OnLine "

Silver Gray Bomber

Silver Gray Bomber

Hook - Single salmon, size 4-10

Thread - Black

Tip - Oval silver tinsel & yellow floss

Tail - Golden pheasant crest

Butt - Black chennile

Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel

Body - Flat silver tinsel

Throat - Guinea fowl

Wing - Brown and white bucktail mixed

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

Silver Blue

Silver Blue

Hook - Singls salmon,size 4-8

Thread - Black

Tip - Flat silver tinsel

Tail - Yellow hackle

Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel

Body - Flat silver tinsel

Hackle - Blue tied on as a collar

Wing - Gray squirrel tail

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

Silver Betsy

Silver Betsy

Hooks – Single salmon

Tip - Oval silver tinsel

Tail - Scarlet red hackle barbs

Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel

Body - Flat silver tinsel

Wing - Gray squirrel tail tied low over the body

Hackle - Grizzly tied on as a collar and tied back

Also known as Silver Abbey.

Hair-Wing Atlantic Salmon Flies - Keith Fulsher & Charles Krom

Sheepscot Special #2

Sheepscot Special #2

Hook - Single salmon, size 4-10

Thread - Black

Tip - Oval gold tinsel

Tail - Orange floss, short

Ribbing - Oval gold tinsel

Body - Orange floss

Throat - Furnace or brown hackle fibers

Wing - Red fox squirrel tail fibers

The Book of Fly Patterns - Eric Leiser

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

Seductress

Seductress

Hook - Single or double salmon, size 2-6

Thread - Black

Tip/tag - Oval gold tinsel and fluorescent green silk

Tail - Peacock sword

Butt - Black ostrich herl

Ribbing - Oval gold tinsel

Body - Pale green krystal flash or substitute

Hackle - Dyed yellow guinea fowl or substitute*

Wing - Dyed yellow bucktail over dyed green bucktail

Over wing - Peacock herl

Cheek - Jungle cock

*All out of dyed yellow guinea fowl so I used yellow hen hackle

The Seductress (fabri-mouches.ca)

Secret

 

Secret

Hook - Single salmon, size 2-6

Thread - Black

Tag - Oval gold tinsel

Tip - Chinese red uni stretch

Tail - Red hackle fibers

Butt - Black ostrich herl

Body - Oval gold tinsel

Throat - Red hen hackle fibers

Wing - Fox squirrel tail

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