La Ouelle

La Ouelle

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Black

Tail - Orange hackle fibers

Body - Glossy gray chenille (giving silver highlights, avoid cheap, dull chenille)

(I twisted gray chenille with oval silver tinsel to achieve the silver highlights)

Ribs - Large silver oval tinsel

Wing - Silver fox fur

Collar - Orange hen neck hackle

Author's Note

The creator of this fly is unknown to me. I had heard in a riverside conversation that the creator was a certain Mr. Jean-Marie Lord?... Personally, it was Christian Milliard, an experienced local salmon angler, who introduced me to him.

According to this recipe. La Ouelle catches its share of salmon every season... Why not try it on the rivers of the north shore with the same colors!

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 "La Ouelle" likely refers to Rivière-Ouelle, a picturesque town in the Kamouraska region of Quebec, Canada

Unknown Woman

Unknown Woman

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Black

Tip - Oval gold tinsel and gold yellow floss

Body - green chenille

Rib - Oval gold tinsel 

Throat - Blue hackle fibers

Wing - Gray squirrel dyed green, one golden pheasant crest feather

Author's Note

The Unknown is a creation of Mr. Gilles Aubert. It's a simple pattern to tie and an excellent fly.

I mainly use it in small sizes

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The Late 80's

The Late 80's

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Black

Tail - Red hackle fiber

Ribbing - Gold oval tinsel

Body: Fluorescent green floss

Throat - Red hackle fiber

Wing - Natural mallard flank

Collar - Grizzly hackle 

Author's Note

In homage to the neon fashion of the late 1980s, here is a small fly that allowed me to catch several rainbows at the St-Alexis-des-Monts trout festival as well as some speckled trout in the Mastigouche wildlife reserve.

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The Grey One

The Grey One

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Black

Tail - Floss silk or light green wool

Rib - Oval gold tinsel

Body - Pale grey wool

Wings - Pale grey fine calf tail

Collar - Grizzly hen feather

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The Grima

The Grima

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Black

Tag - Oval silver tinsel

Tail - Yellow hackle tips

Butt - Black ostrich herl

Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel

Body - Rear half yellow floss divided by black ostrich herl and front half black floss

Throat - Yellow

Wing - Red fox squirrel tail

Author's Note

A good substitute for the Lanctot or even the Jock Scott.

Original fly by Kristjan Gislason of Reykjavik (Iceland)

This fly can also be tied in blue. green, red, orange, etc...

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Warrington Special

Warrington Special

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Black

Tag - UNI Axxel 6 Silver Black

Butt - UNI-Stretch Green

Tail - Golden pheasant crest

Body - UNI Axxel 6 Silver Black

Wing - Black bear or skunk

Collar - 2 turns of chartreuse hen neck

Add 2 strand's of UNI Axxel 6 Peacock on each side of the wing

The Warrington Special can fish all types of water.

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Prism

Prism

Hook - Single salmon

Thread - Olive

Tag - Copper wire

Tail - Golden pheasant tippets

Ribbing - Copper wire

Body - Peacock herl

Hackle collar - Grizzly

Wing - Red fox squirrel tail

The Prism was first tied by Mark Bachmann in the early eighties.  He designed it to be an unobtrusive pattern for low, clear water.  However, during the time period mentioned here, the water was medium level with visibility that averaged four to six feet. This is normal October conditions for the Deschutes during good years.  In October, many summer steelhead have been away from the Ocean feeding-grounds for several months.  They start to forget about the brightly colored marine organisms that nurtured them there and begin to turn "trouty" in their behavior, looking for things with more freshwater coloration. The Prism turned the trick. Several very large steelhead have been taken on this pattern.  It has proven itself very useful as a come-back fly, after steelhead have risen to, but have refused a brighter colored fly.