Silver Doctor

Silver Doctor 

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Red

Tip - Flat silver tinsel

Tail - Golden pheasant crest feather 

Butt - Dubbed with red lamb's wool

Body - Flat silver tinsel

Hackle - Light blue tied on as a collar and tied back and down

Wing - Natural brown bucktail tied over the body, with an overwing of red, yellow, and blue bucktail mixed

Cheeks - Jungle cock eyes or substitute

Author's Note

This is a variation of a British Atlantic salmon fly pattern

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

Silver Blue

Silver Blue 

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Black

Tip - Flat silver tinsel

Tail - Golden pheasant crest feather

Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel

Body - Flat silver tinsel

Hackle - Light blue tied on as a collar and tied back and down

Wing - Barred teal barbs tied over the body

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

Silver Brown Bucktail

Silver Brown Bucktail

Hooks - MUS80500BL, MUS80501BL, TMC7999, or DA12441, sizes 2-6

Thread - Black

Body - Flat silver tinsel

Hackle - Dark brown tied on as a collar and tied back and down

Wing - Natural brown bucktail tied over the body

Author's Note

This is a variation of a bucktail streamer pattern.

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

Salmo Le Sac

Salmo Le Sac 

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Black

Tail - Peacock sword feather barbs

Ribbing - Oval gold tinsel

Body - Dubbed with salmon rabbit fur

Hackle - Furnace hen hackle tied on as a collar and tied back

Wing - Fox squirrel tail tied over the body

Author's Note

Mike Kennedy of Lake Oswego, Oregon, originated this pattern.

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

Pink Rat

Pink Rat 

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Red

Tip - Oval silver tinsel

Tail - Amherst pheasant crest feather

Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel

Body - Dubbed with fluorescent hot pink lamb's wool

Hackle - Grizzly tied on as a collar and tied back

Wing - Gray squirrel tail tied over the body

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

Prichard's Comet

Prichard's Comet 

Hooks - MUS80500BL, MUS80501 BL, TMC7999, or DA12441, sizes 2-8

Thread - Red

Tail - Fluorescent fire orange bucktail

Body - Oval silver tinsel

Hackle - Yellow and scarlet red tied on as a collar mixed and tied back

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

Nation's Special

Nation's Special

Hook - Number 4 to 8

Tail - Six strands from a golden pheasant tippet feather

Body - Rear third of flat silver tinsel; front two thirds of black floss

Rib - Oval silver tinsel

Throat - Speckled guinea fowl

Wing - Mottled grey turkey, enclosing a few strands from a golden pheasant tippet feather

Sides - Jungle cock

Originator - Bill Nelson

"Nation's Special - Old Flies - Fly Angler's OnLine Volumn 5 week 9 " (flyanglersonline.com)